quoth Meaning, Definition & Usage

Quoth transitive verb
Etymology
AS.cwe&edh;an, imp cwæ&edh;, pl. cw&aemac;don; akin to OS. que&edh;an, OHG. quethan, quedan, Icel. kve&edh;a, Goth. qiþan. Cf. Bequeath.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913