wayment

== English == === Alternative forms === waiment === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Verb ==== wayment (third-person singular simple present wayments, present participle waymenting, simple past and past participle waymented) (ambitransitive, obsolete) To lament. Synonyms: grieve, mourn; see also Thesaurus:be sad, Thesaurus:lament ==== Noun ==== wayment (obsolete) Lamentation; grief. === Etymology 2 === Contraction, especially reflective of a common African American Vernacular English pronunciation. Spelling very unlikely to have been influenced by Etymology 1. ==== Pronunciation ==== ==== Interjection ==== wayment (slang, nonstandard, chiefly African-American Vernacular) 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.