wayment

Meanings

Verb

• To lament.

Noun

• Lamentation; grief.

Interjection

• Wait a minute.

Origin

• From Middle English weymenten, waymenten, from Old Northern French waimenter (compare Old French gaimenter), a conflation of guai, from Frankish from Proto-Germanic *wai, and Latin lamentari. Akin to Old High German wē (German Weh "woe, pain"), Old English wā. More at woe, lament.
• Contraction.