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yet¹

  • /jɛt/ Canada, US, UK
  • /jet/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /jɪt/ Northumbria, unstressed

Rhymes with -ɛt

Where it comes from

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 yit · yitt · ytt

  1. not comparable In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future. I haven't finished yet.
  2. not comparable 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. archaic, not comparable, poetic In affirmative use: still. He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)
  4. not comparable At some future time; eventually. The riddle will be solved yet.
  5. not comparable, with infinitive Not as of the time referenced. I’ve yet to see him. — I have not yet seen him.
  6. not comparable In addition. There are two hours yet to go until our destination.
  7. not comparable Even. K-2 is yet higher than this.

Similar: even now, still, erenow, so far, to date, formerly, in time, sooner or later, subsequently, further, moreover, still

conjunction yeat

  1. Nevertheless; however; but; despite that. I thought I knew you, yet how wrong was I!

yet²

  • /jɛt/ Canada, US, UK
  • /jet/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /jɪt/ Northumbria, unstressed

Rhymes with -ɛt

Where it comes from

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.

verb yets · yetting · yet · yetted

  1. obsolete To pour. […] & stablenes of perseueraunce; graunt me for all wor[l]dly consolacyons the swete, gracyous vnccyon of the holy goost, & for all carnall loue
  2. dialectal, obsolete To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten). […] 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 yets · yit · yete

  1. dialectal A metal pan or boiler; yetling.

yet³

  • /jɛt/ Canada, US, UK
  • /jet/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /jɪt/ Northumbria, unstressed

Rhymes with -ɛt

Where it comes from

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

verb yets · yetting · yot · yotten

  1. West Country, nonstandard To get.

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