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
köken: From Proto-Turkic *artuk, a derivation of Proto-Turkic *art- (“to increase”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰺𐱃𐰸 (r¹t¹q̊¹ /artuq/, “more, much”), Turkish artık, Kazakh артық (artyq), Chagatai ارتوق (artuq), Uzbek ortiq, Uyghur ئارتۇق (artuq), Chuvash ытах (yt̬ah), ытла (ytla).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *éy Proto-Indo-European *h₁yów Proto-Balto-Slavic *jau Proto-Slavic *ju Proto-Indo-European *gʰe Proto-Balto-Slavic *ge Proto-Slavic *že Proto-Slavic *(j)uže Old Polish już Polish już Inherited from Old Polish już.
any more, any longer · only, merely, just, solely (when there used to be more) · synonym of enemmän /enempää (“more”)
köken: Either from the partitive singular of (now obsolete) enä, or alternatively from enä + -ki(n), through reduction (*enä-ɣi(k) > enäi > enää); the clitic -kin (from earlier *-ɣik) may have developed a comparative sense. In Old Literary Finnish, this word was used in the more general meaning “more”, including as a comparative adjective, but its use has become more specialized over time.