wayment

wayment

English

Alternative forms

• waiment

Etymology 1

Middle English waymenten, from Old Northern French waimenter "to lament" (compare Old French guaimenter, gaimenter "to lament"), a conflation of Old French wai, guai "woe", from Frankish *wai, wē "woe" from Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe”), and Latin lamentari "to lament". Akin to Old High German wē "woe" (German Weh "woe, pain"), Old English wā "woe". More at woe, lament.

Verb

wayment (third-person singular simple present wayments, present participle waymenting, simple past and past participle waymented)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To lament.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, / When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase […] ?

Noun

wayment

1. (obsolete) Lamentation; grief.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Etymology 2

Contraction.

Interjection

wayment

1. (informal) Wait a minute.
   • 2019 Jade Boren, Halle Berry & Lena Waithe Share A Passionate Kiss On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Hollywood Life, 23 May 2019. Accessed 29 May 2019.

     “Wayment! she know you gotta girl??? I’m ready to fight!!!!!! Halle who!???” Ericka commented, referring to film production executive Alana Mayo, who became engaged to Lena during Thanksgiving in 2017.