quoth
/kwəʊθ/verb
with direct speech
- archaic or humorous said (used only in first and third person singular before the subject)〈古或幽默〉［仅用于第一和第三人称单数的主语之前］说：
'Ah, ' quoth he, as soon as the bike started, 'a blown cylinder head gasket.'
车一启动, 他就说：“啊, 汽缸盖垫圈压碎了。”
词源
Middle English: past tense of obsolete quethe 'say， declare'， of Germanic origin.