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.
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).