Wayment
intj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Lamentation; grief. obsolete
"And they, for pittie of the sad wayment"
- 1 To lament. ambitransitive, obsolete
"For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, / When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase […]?"
- 1 Wait a minute. nonstandard, slang
"“Wayment. Hold up.” Christophe stopped drawing. “What the hell, Nicco? That's not a book.” “And 'wayment' is a word?” questioned Ramsey, chuckling at Christophe's pronunciation of “wait a minute.”"
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
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More examples"For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, / When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase […]?"
Etymology
From Middle English waymenten, from Anglo-Norman waimenter (“to lament”) (compare Old French guaimenter, gaimenter (“to lament”)), a conflation of 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.
Contraction, especially reflective of a common African American Vernacular English pronunciation. Spelling very unlikely to have been influenced by Etymology 1.
Variant of Wyman.