Where does “quoth” come from?

quoth (Middle English) comes from Old English cwæþ, from Proto-Germanic kwaþ.

Ancestry of “quoth”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishcwæþfirst/third-person preterite of cweþan
2Proto-Germanickwaþ—

Words derived from “quoth”

Every word from Proto-Germanic kwaþ →Every word from Old English cwæþ →