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Hmm, how did "hora" end up being used as "yet/but"?
– temporary_user_name
Commented May 29 at 22:00
@temporary_user_name I edited my answer adding "the word "or" meant "now" in the past" to explain how "or" eventually meant "yes/but" : "hour" -> "now" -> "yes/but".
– Bruno
Commented May 29 at 23:47
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@temporary_user_name Sorry, it is a typo. I meant: "or" eventually meant "yet/but" : "hour" -> "now" -> "yet/but".
– Bruno
Commented May 30 at 0:41
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@WoJ Je ne m'attendais pas à répondre, or je l'ai fait. (I hadn't expected to reply, yet I did.)
– jlliagre
Commented May 30 at 12:49
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For the semantic development, consider also that now in English is often used, as Wiktionary describes it (adverb, sense 2), “to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke” (as in, “Now, that wasn’t so hard, was it?”. That’s sort of in between a purely temporal meaning and a contrastive meaning like ‘yet’ or ‘but’.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Commented May 30 at 13:01

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