different between said vs quoth

English

Alternative forms

• saide, sayde, seyde (obsolete)
• sayed (nonstandard)
• sed (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English s?de, sæ?de (preterite) and ?esæ?d (past participle), equivalent to say +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?d, IPA^(key): /s?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

said

1. simple past tense and past participle of say

Adjective

said (not comparable)

1. Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.

Translations

Determiner

said

1. Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.

Translations

See also

• Said for proper noun sense

Anagrams

• AIDS, Aids, Dais, IADS, IADs, aids, dais, daïs, sadi, sida

Estonian

Verb

said

1. Second-person singular past form of saama.
2. Third-person plural past form of saama.

Middle English

Verb

said

1. Alternative form of seide

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) seit
• (Sutsilvan) set
• (Surmiran) seid

Etymology

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??ítis (“perishing, decrease”).

Noun

said f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) thirst

English

Etymology

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 *kweþan? (“to say”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwo??/
• Rhymes: -???

Verb

quoth

1. (archaic or literary, now defective) simple past tense of quethe; said

Verb

quoth (third-person singular simple present quoth, no present participle, simple past and past participle quoth)

1. (defective, modal, auxiliary) to say

Usage notes

Quoth is considered a defective verb because it is now the only recognizable form of the verb quethe, all other forms of which are obsolete. Quoth almost always comes before the subject, usually in the form "quoth he/she." It also often comes after the object, which is whatever is being said by the subject, written between quotation marks. It can also be inserted in the middle of an object phrase, where "quoth [subject]" is separated from the rest of the sentence by commas.

See also

• quote
• say