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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

queth

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
queth
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Speech, talk.

Obsolete

noun

Statement, saying, proverb.

Obsolete

noun

The howling upon finding prey by hunting dogs during a hunt; quest.

Obsolete

noun

A corsepresent, mortuary.

Obsolete

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”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *gʷet-, cweth, cweþan, *kweþaną

Usage

Inflected Forms

queths (plural)

Questions

What does queth mean?
Speech, talk.
Where does queth come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce queth

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