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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Q/quoth/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Q/quoth/#x1)
- "Ho, Jock," quoth the goodwife, "here come. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Q/quoth/#x2)
- "Aha, it has allies," quoth the Fowl. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Q/quoth/#x3)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Q/quoth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.