yet

Etymology 1

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.

adv

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.
      I haven't finished yet.
      Have you finished yet?
      We do not yet know what happened.
      He has never yet been late for an appointment.
   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.
      He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)
2. At some future time; eventually.
   The riddle will be solved yet.
3. (after 'have' and certain copulative verbs, followed by an infinitive) Not as of the time referenced.
   I’ve yet to see him. — I have not yet seen him.
   I had yet to go to a convention. — I had not yet gone to a convention.
   They are yet to win a single match. — They have not yet won a single match.
   He seemed yet to be convinced. — He seemed not yet to have been convinced.
4. In addition.
   After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar. September 18, 2011, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport
   There are two hours yet to go until our destination.
5. (degree) Even.
   K-2 is yet higher than this.
   Oh no! Yet more problems!

conj

1. Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.
   I thought I knew you, yet how wrong I was.
   Emaciated little creatures, with skin harsh and rough, rapid pulse, nerves ever on the strain—have yet a look of lively intelligence. 1907, Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood, page 10
   In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. 2013-05-25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74

Etymology 2

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

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 / yet into my soule the loue of thyne holy name. 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
   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, […] 1509 (edition published 1874), Alexander Barclay (translator), The Ship of Fools (originally by Sebastian Brant), page 211
2. (obsolete outside dialects) 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. 1531 (edition reprinted 1880), Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Gouernour, page 48

noun

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

Etymology 3

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

verb

1. (nonstandard, West Country) To get.