Thursday words: quethe + fantod

Feb 16, 2017 07:48

Sorry for missing last week -- spent the day in bed with the flu. (Yanno, that'd be a good word to run sometime: influenza.) So today, two words as a make-up:

quethe (KWEETH) - v., to say or declare.

Obsolete and almost completely forgotten except in the past tense, quoth. Yes, quoth does have a present tense form, and future, and all the usual ( Read more... )

old english, verb, noun, unknown etymology, obsolete, q, f

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theidolhands February 17 2017, 00:58:00 UTC
Is quethe not related to "bequeath" as in to leave a possession to someone?

I know there is a word for a word that only exists in tangent with another word...but I've forgotten it!

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prettygoodword February 17 2017, 15:12:09 UTC
It is related -- I even noted it. :-)

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