wayment

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verb

To lament.

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OriginMiddle English waymenten ← Anglo-Norman waimenter ← Frankish *wai, *wē →
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Meanings

wayment1

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

present singular third person wayments · participle present waymenting · participle past waymented · past waymented · alternative waiment

  1. ambitransitiveobsoleteTo lament.

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

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

    Synonyms: grieve, mourn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, engrieve, erme

noun

alternative waiment

  1. obsoleteLamentation; grief.

    And they, for pittie of the sad wayment

    1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

wayment2

interjection

alternative waiment

  1. nonstandardslangchiefly African-American VernacularWait a minute.

    “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.”

    2018, Genevive Chamblee, Out of the Penalty Box
    1 more example

    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.

Wayment3

proper nounWayment (plural Wayments)

plural Wayments

  1. A surname.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo lament.

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Also see
lament

Origin

wayment · verb, noun

  1. Latinlamentari“to lament”
  2. Proto-Germanic*wai“woe”
  3. Frankish*wai, *wē“woe”
  4. Anglo-Normanwaimenter“to lament”
  5. Middle Englishwaymenten
  6. Englishwayment

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.

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wayment · interjection

Contraction, especially reflective of a common African American Vernacular English pronunciation. Spelling very unlikely to have been influenced by Etymology 1.

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Wayment · proper noun

Variant of Wyman.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wayment,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wayment.

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