[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

quoth \quoth\ kw=oth or kwu^th, v. t. as. cweethan, imp
   cwaeeth, pl. cw=aedon; akin to os. queethan, ohg.
   quethan, quedan, icel. kveetha, goth. qithornan.
   root22. cf. 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. "let me not live, quoth he." --shak.
   1913 webster
see also:
bequeath 

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