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.
köken: First attested in the Neung'eomgyeong eonhae (楞嚴經諺解 / 능엄경언해), 1461, as Middle Korean 드듸여 (Yale: tutuyye). From 드듸- (tutuy-, “to step”) + -어 (-e, infinitive suffix). Also see Idu form 導良 (TUTUY-e).
köken: From Middle Low German endeliken, from ende, near-equivalent to ändlig (“finite”) + -en (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Danish endelig, Norwegian Bokmål endelig, Norwegian Nynorsk endeleg, German endlich, Dutch eindelijk and English endly.
at length, at last, finally, eventually · used also as an adverbial intensifier of interrogatives to a somewhat greater degree than -nam
eş: demum, postremo
köken: From tam (“so”) + -dem (“new interpreted particle from īdem”). Compare with its earlier doublet: tamen. Both with original meaning supposedly "so(much)ever".
Tandem hīs Aenēān compellat vōcibus ultrō: …. At last [Dido] – of her own accord – confronts Aeneas, to say to him: ….