Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Said.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo say.
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.
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