Saith
/seɪθ/noun
Archaic third-person singular present tense of "say."
Did you know?Saith is the old present-tense form preserved in Biblical and archaic English, ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Latin *fāri* (“to speak”) and Greek *phēmi* (“I say”).
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*bʰeh₂-
“to speak, say”
Proto-Italic
Italic
*fā-
“to speak”
Old English
English
sǣġþ
“he says”
Middle English
English
saith
“he says”
Modern English
English
saith
“archaic or biblical "says"”