queth

== English == === 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”). === Noun === queth (plural queths) (obsolete) Speech, talk. Statement, saying, proverb. The howling upon finding prey by hunting dogs during a hunt; quest. A corsepresent, mortuary. === References === “queth and quethe”, in Middle English Compendium‎[1], University of Michigan, (Can we date this quote?) == Cornish == === Verb === queth m (plural quethow) (nautical) breasthook === References === R. Morton Nance, editor (1952), An English-Cornish Dictionary (in Cornish), →ISBN, page 21