now (often as opposed to before), anymore, no longer · indicates the completion of an action · yet (in questions)
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish ya (“already; now”), from Latin iam. Compare Asturian yá, Catalan ja, French déjà, Galician xa, Italian già, Ladino ya, and Portuguese já.
aile: desde ya, no ya, pues ya, que ya es decir, que ya ya, si ya, ya está, ya mero, ya no, ya pues
Near-synonyms: ahora, (colloquial, Latin America) ahorita
already (having reached a certain situation or finished a certain action) · Used to strengthen one's judgment or emotions; compare English already · already the time to do so; shortly, soon
zıt: 未だ
köken: Derivation unknown. First attested in 1477, around the Muromachi Period. Historical kana orthography shows that this was originally まう (mau), and Portuguese sources from the late 1500s and early 1600s record this as ⟨mǒ⟩, indicating a pronunciation of /mɔː/ as part of the regular sound shift from /au/ to /oː/. The initial ma is speculatively connected to 今 (ima, “now”) (compare both the loss of…
彼はもうここに来ている。
Fist of the North Star お前はもう死んでいる。 Omae wa mō shinde iru. You are already dead.
already (prior to some time; so soon) · now, already (emphasizer)
köken: From Proto-Finnic *jo (compare Estonian ju, Ingrian jo, Karelian jo, Livonian jo, Veps jo, Votic jo), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *ju (compare Gothic 𐌾𐌿 (ju, “already”), Old High German ju (“already”)), or alternatively from Proto-Baltic *jau (compare Latvian jau, Lithuanian jaũ).