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quoth

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Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

quothv. t. [AS. cwe, imp cwæ, pl. cw; akin to OS. que, OHG. quethan, quedan, Icel. kve, Goth. qi. Bequeath.].
     Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I, quoth he.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

quoth, v.tr. (only in 1st and 3rd person) archaic said.

Etymology
OE cw{aelig}th past of cwethan say f. Gmc

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