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queth

The English word “queth” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Speech, talk.
  2. Statement, saying, proverb.
  3. The howling upon finding prey by hunting dogs during a hunt; quest.
  4. A corsepresent, mortuary.

Etymology

From Middle English cweth, queth, queye (mistake), related to the verb quethe and bequeath, from Old English cweþan, from Proto-Germanic *kweþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say, speak”).

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