quoth

[ kwohth ]

/ kwoʊθ /

said (used with nouns, and with first- and third-person pronouns, and always placed before the subject): Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

Also quo.

Origin of quoth

1150–1200; preterit of quethe (otherwise obsolete), Middle English quethen, Old English cwethan to say. Cf. bequeath

That was a mistake, Wyatt, quoth Mr. Holiday; you should have collected his hair.

The Sunset Trail |Alfred Henry Lewis
"I have heard much even in the quiet cloisters of these new and dreadful engines," quoth Alleyne.

The White Company |Arthur Conan Doyle
“I hear a sound in the wind that is like a sound of piping,” quoth she.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI |Robert Louis Stevenson
"He is gone to his grandfather himself, I verily believe," quoth Hereward.

Hereward, The Last of the English |Charles Kingsley

"Move on, youngster," quoth a policeman at this moment, and thus put an end to my soliloquy.

Confessions Of Con Cregan |Charles James Lever

quoth

/ (kwəʊθ) /

archaic (used with all pronouns except thou and you, and with nouns) another word for said 1 (def. 2)

Old English cwæth, third person singular of cwethan to say; related to Old Frisian quetha to say, Old Saxon, Old High German quethan; see bequeath