wayment
See also: Wayment
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English weymenten, waymenten, from Old Northern French 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.
Verb edit
wayment (third-person singular simple present wayments, present participle waymenting, simple past and past participle waymented)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To lament.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, / When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase […] ?
Noun edit
wayment
- (obsolete) Lamentation; grief.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- And they, for pittie of the sad wayment
Etymology 2 edit
Contraction, especially reflective of a common African American Vernacular English pronunciation. Spelling very unlikely to have been influenced by Etymology 1.
Interjection edit
wayment
- (slang, nonstandard, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Wait a minute.
- 2018, Genevive Chamblee, Out of the Penalty Box:
- “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.”
- 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.