yet

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Translingual

Symbol

yet

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Yetfa.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Yetfa terms

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English yet, yit, from Old English ġīet, gȳta, from Proto-West Germanic *jūta, from Proto-Germanic *juta (compare West Frisian jit, jitte (“yet”), Dutch ooit (“ever”), German jetzt (“now”)), compound of (1) *ju (“already”, adverb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-, accusative of *h₂óyu (“long time”) and (2) the Proto-Germanic *ta (“to, towards”), from Proto-Indo-European *do. More at aye and -th.

Adverb

yet (not comparable)

1. Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.
   1. In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.

   2. In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.

      Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.

   3. (poetic or archaic) In affirmative use: still.
2. At some future time; eventually.
3. (after 'have' and certain copulative verbs, followed by an infinitive) Not as of the time referenced.

4. In addition.

5. (degree) Even.

Alternative forms

• yit (US, Ireland, colloquial)
• yitt, ytt (obsolete)

Synonyms

• (up to some specified time): even now, still, erenow, so far, to date; see also Thesaurus:hitherto or Thesaurus:formerly
• (at some future time): at last, in time, sooner or later; see also Thesaurus:eventually or Thesaurus:subsequently
• (not at the time referenced): still
• (in addition): besides, further, moreover; see also Thesaurus:additionally
• (even): still

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Sranan Tongo: ete

Translations

References

Conjunction

yet

1. Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.

Alternative forms

• yeat (obsolete)

Synonyms

• be that as it may, even so, withal; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless

Derived terms

• as yet

Translations

Further reading

• yet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots yat (“to pour, yet”), West Frisian jitte (“to scatter, shed, pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour, cast, mould”), German gießen (“to pour, cast, mould”), Swedish gjuta (“to pour, cast”). Doublet of yote.

Alternative forms

• yit
• yete (obsolete)

Verb

yet (third-person singular simple present yets, present participle yetting, simple past yet or yetted, past participle yet or yetted or yoten)

1. (obsolete) To pour.
   • 1502, William Atkynson (translator), De Imitatione Christi, in 1893, John Kells Ingram, The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi, page 221:

     […] & stablenes of perseueraunce; graunt me for all wor[l]dly consolacyons the swete, gracyous vnccyon of the holy goost, & for all carnall loue
     yet into my soule the loue of thyne holy name.

   • 1509 (edition published 1874), Alexander Barclay (translator), The Ship of Fools (originally by Sebastian Brant), page 211:

     Some with a fals herte, and a payntyd face
     In his lordes seruyce to haue chefe rowme and place
     Into his lordes erys yetyth secretly
     Lyes venemous, […]

2. (obsolete outside dialects) To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).
   • 1531 (edition reprinted 1880), Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Gouernour, page 48:

     […] whiche shall present him selfe openly stained or embrued with sondry colours, or poudered with the duste of stones that he cutteth, or perfumed with tedious sauours of the metalles by him yoten.

Noun

yet (plural yets)

1. (dialectal) A metal pan or boiler; yetling.

Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English yeten, ȝeten, from Old English ġietan, from Proto-Germanic *getaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-. More at get.

Verb

yet (third-person singular simple present yets, present participle yetting, simple past yot, past participle yotten)

1. (nonstandard, West Country) To get.

References

• “yet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “yet”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• -ety, Tye, ety, t'ye, tey, tye

Cahuilla

Noun

yét

1. female (animal)

Scots

Etymology

From Old English ġīet, gȳta, from Proto-Germanic *juta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jɛt], [jɪt]

Adverb

yet (not comparable)

1. yet, up to now, now as before, at present, still

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English yet.

Adverb

yet

1. still
2. already
3. yet