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wayment

wayment verb: to lament.

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To 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

Noun

wayment

  1. (obsolete) Lamentation; grief.
    • And they, for pittie of the sad wayment1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

Interjection

  1. (nonstandard, slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Wait 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

Proper noun capitalized: Wayment

Wayment (plural Wayments)

  1. A surname.

wayment meaning in Tamil

wayment in Tamil

புலம்பல்

Synonyms of wayment

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Forms of wayment

Verb
third-person singular presentwayments
present participlewaymenting
past participlewaymented
pastwaymented
alternative formwaiment
Proper noun
pluralWayments

Origin of wayment

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.

Questions about wayment

What does wayment mean?
Wayment means to lament.
What is wayment in Tamil?
Wayment in Tamil is புலம்பல். See Wayment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wayment?
Wayment can be a verb, a noun, an interjection or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of wayment?
The past tense of wayment is waymented.

Words near wayment in the dictionary

  1. waymarks
  2. waymaster
  3. waymasters
  4. waymate
  5. waymates
  6. wayment
  7. waymented
  8. waymenting
  9. waymentings
  10. wayments
  11. Waymire

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wayment (page history and authors); Wayment (page history and authors); wayment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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