Etymograph

English

yet

Yet comes from Old English ġīet ‘still’, from Proto-West Germanic *jūta, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *juta ‘yet’, a compound of *ju ‘already’ and *ta ‘to’.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*juta‘yet’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*jūtareconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġīet‘still’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500yet‘still, even now’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1602yet

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*juta‘yet’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*jūtareconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġīet‘still’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500yet‘still, even now’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1602yet

Earliest quotation: 1602, William Warner, The Seventh Booke. Chapter XXXVI.: “Nor Court nor Citie had ſhe ſeene, yeat eithers…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu ‘long time’

age, junior, juvenile, longevity, juvenal, 7 more

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- ‘straight, upright, right’

just, judge, jury, judgment, judicial, judiciary, prejudice, preach, predicament, conjure, predicate, jurist, judicious, injurious, adjudicate, judicature, 27 more

Another origin of yet

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰewd-‘to pour’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*geutaną‘to flow, pour’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*geutan‘to pour’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġēotan‘to flow, pour’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500yeten‘to pour out from a container’
  6. Englishtodayyet

Another origin of yet

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʰed-‘to find’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*getaną‘to find or make a way’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*getanreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġietan‘to get’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500yeten
  6. Englishtodayyet

Today it means

adv In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *juta / yet

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