quoth

«quoth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: said — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

said

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

Said; a form of "say" used in old tales, with the speaker placed after it. tree →

how it differs from today

Old word; today we say "said", and "quoth" is used only in old or humorous writing.

examples

• "Oh," quoth she, "it's a wee bannock." (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• "Ho, Jock," quoth the goodwife, "here come. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• "Aha, it has allies," quoth the Fowl. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

primary record

said

tests

manual 6; corpora 71 (Torah 0, tales 71, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 8.0 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «quoth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.