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yet

Pronunciation: /jɛt/

The English word “yet” has 12 meanings listed here.

adverb

  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.
  3. In affirmative use: still.
  4. At some future time; eventually.
  5. Not as of the time referenced.
  6. In addition.
  7. Even.

conjunction

  1. Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.

verb

  1. To pour.
  2. To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).
  3. To get.

noun

  1. A metal pan or boiler; yetling.

Etymology

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…

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