quethe

English

WOTD – 12 August 2010

Etymology

From Middle English quethen, cwethen, from Old English cweþan, from Proto-Germanic *kweþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say, speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwiːð/

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• Rhymes: -iːð

Verb

quethe (third-person singular simple present quethes, present participle quething, simple past quoth or quod or quethed, past participle quoth or quethen or quethed)

1. (obsolete except in past tense quoth) To say or declare.
   • 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review‎^[1], volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:

     Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

Related terms

• bequeath

Translations

to say or declare

• Finnish: lausua (fi)
• Hungarian: mond (hu), kijelent (hu), szól (hu), megszólal (hu)
• Irish: abair (ga)

  Old Irish: ol, ar

• Russian: мо́лвить (ru) impf (mólvitʹ), промо́лвить (ru) pf (promólvitʹ) (archaic, poetic)
• Spanish: declarar (es), far (es) (archaic, poetic)
• Welsh: medd (cy)

Middle English

Verb

quethe

1. Alternative form of quethen