queth

词形变化

queths 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Speech, talk.

  2. 2.

    Statement, saying, proverb.

  3. 3.

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

  4. 4.

    A corsepresent, mortuary.

词源

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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