Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to quoth
Participle: quothed
Gerund: quothing
Indicative
Present
| I | quoth |
| you | quoth |
| he;she;it | quoths |
| we | quoth |
| you | quoth |
| they | quoth |
Perfect
| I | have quothed |
| you | have quothed |
| he;she;it | has quothed |
| we | have quothed |
| you | have quothed |
| they | have quothed |
Past
| I | quothed |
| you | quothed |
| he;she;it | quothed |
| we | quothed |
| you | quothed |
| they | quothed |
Pluperfect
| I | had quothed |
| you | had quothed |
| he;she;it | had quothed |
| we | had quothed |
| you | had quothed |
| they | had quothed |
Future
| I | will quoth |
| you | will quoth |
| he;she;it | will quoth |
| we | will quoth |
| you | will quoth |
| they | will quoth |
Future Perfect
| I | will have quothed |
| you | will have quothed |
| he;she;it | will have quothed |
| we | will have quothed |
| you | will have quothed |
| they | will have quothed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | quoth |
| you | quoth |
| he;she;it | quoth |
| we | quoth |
| you | quoth |
| they | quoth |
Perfect
| I | have quothed |
| you | have quothed |
| he;she;it | have quothed |
| we | have quothed |
| you | have quothed |
| they | have quothed |
Imperfect
| I | quothed |
| you | quothed |
| he;she;it | quothed |
| we | quothed |
| you | quothed |
| they | quothed |
Pluperfect
| I | had quothed |
| you | had quothed |
| he;she;it | had quothed |
| we | had quothed |
| you | had quothed |
| they | had quothed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would quoth |
| you | would quoth |
| he;she;it | would quoth |
| we | would quoth |
| you | would quoth |
| they | would quoth |
Perfect
| I | would have quothed |
| you | would have quothed |
| he;she;it | would have quothed |
| we | would have quothed |
| you | would have quothed |
| they | would have quothed |
Imperative
| you | quoth |
| we | Let's quoth |
| you | quoth |
Verbs conjugated like 'quoth'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'quoth'
quote,
auth,
euth,
froth,
moth,
quash,
quat,
quetch,
quich,
quit,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
cwæð, past tense of
cweðan "to say, speak, name, call" (cf. O.S.
quethan, O.N.
kveða, O.Fris.
quetha, O.H.G.
quedan, Goth.
qiþan). Cf. archaic
quotha "said he" (1519) for O.E.
cwæðe ge "think you?"
2. From Middle English quoth, quath, from Old English cwæþ (first and third person past indicative of cweþan (“to say, speak to, address, exhort, admonish”)), from Proto-Germanic *kwaþ (first and third person past indicative of Proto-Germanic *kweþaną (“to say”)). Unrelated to quote. See: Proto-Germanic '
*kweþaną'.
Verbs referencing "quoth"
Danish
kvæde, Swedish
kväda.
Sample Sentences
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Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore." [1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:]
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“Pull, if ye never pull’d before; / Good ringers, pull your best,” quoth he. [a. 1897, Jean Ingelow, The Brides of Enderby:]
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“Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow,” quoth Robin, “thou seemest happy this merry morn.” ¶ “Ay, that am I,” quoth the jolly Butcher, “and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?” [1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:]