Meaning

2 senses

  1. (archaic, defective, literary)Said.

  2. (archaic, auxiliary, defective, modal, nonstandard)To say.

Origin

From Middle English quoth, quath, from Old English cwæþ (first and third person past indic

From Middle English quoth, quath, from Old English cwæþ (first and third person past indicative of cweþan (“to say, speak to, address, exhort, admonish”)), from Proto-Germanic *kwaþ (first and third person past indicative of Proto-Germanic *kweþaną (“to say”)). Unrelated to quote.

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Forms

quoths, quothing, quothed, quothed
Base formquoth · to quoth
3rd person singularquoths
Present participlequothing
Past simplequothed
Past participlequothed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyquoth
he, she, itquoths

Past simpleLesson

all personsquothed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave quothed
he, she, ithas quothed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill quoth

Word family

3 related words
RelatedquoteB2sayA1
Derivedquotha

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
quotationB2quoteB2quotientrrabbi

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