quoth

US[kwohth]/kwoʊθ/1 syllable
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Quoth (kwōth or kwŭth), transitive verb

Origin: AS. cweðan, imp cwæð, pl. cwǣdon; akin to OS. queðan, OHG. quethan, quedan, Icel. kveða, Goth. qiþan. √22. Cf. Bequeath.

Said; spoke; uttered; — used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I, quoth he. “Let me not live, quoth he.” William Shakespeare

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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