quoth

verb2

1. •
   (literary, no longer used) Said.

   • Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore." — 1845
2. •
   (nonstandard, no longer used) To say.

   • But the Healing-one stood before the under-king, and the under-king arraigned him, quothing, thou art the king of the Jews? the Healing-one quoths him, thou quoths. — 1807