yet

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   Up to now; used to say something has not happened so far.

   I haven't finished yet.

2. 2
   adv

   But; in spite of what was just said.

   You are right, yet I still disagree.

3. 3
   adv

   To an even greater degree; still.

   We aim for yet better results next year.

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.

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