"wayment" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "weymenten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English weymenten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro-nor",
        "3": "waimenter",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Northern French waimenter (“to lament”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "gaimenter",
        "3": "guaimenter, gaimenter",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French guaimenter, gaimenter (“to lament”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*wai, *wē",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *wai, *wē (“woe”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wai",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "lamentari",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin lamentari (“to lament”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "wē",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German wē (“woe”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Weh"
      },
      "expansion": "German Weh",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "wā",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English wā (“woe”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wayments",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waymenting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waymented",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waymented",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wayment (third-person singular simple present wayments, present participle waymenting, simple past and past participle waymented)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, / When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase […]?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lament."
      ],
      "id": "en-wayment-en-verb-uY7uvEyV",
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "lament",
          "lament"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To lament."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "waiment"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wayment"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "weymenten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English weymenten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro-nor",
        "3": "waimenter",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Northern French waimenter (“to lament”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "gaimenter",
        "3": "guaimenter, gaimenter",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French guaimenter, gaimenter (“to lament”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*wai, *wē",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *wai, *wē (“woe”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wai",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "lamentari",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin lamentari (“to lament”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "wē",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German wē (“woe”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Weh"
      },
      "expansion": "German Weh",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "wā",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English wā (“woe”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "wayment",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "And they, for pittie of the sad wayment",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lamentation; grief."
      ],
      "id": "en-wayment-en-noun-fni-~aJ2",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Lamentation; grief."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "waiment"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wayment"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Contraction, especially reflective of a common African American Vernacular English pronunciation. Spelling very unlikely to have been influenced by Etymology 1.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wayment",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 11 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 11 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 8 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Genevive Chamblee, Out of the Penalty Box:",
          "text": "“Wayment. Hold up.” Christophe stopped drawing. “What the hell, Nicco? That's not a book.”\n“And 'wayment' is a word?” questioned Ramsey, chuckling at Christophe's pronunciation of “wait a minute.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2019 Jade Boren, Halle Berry & Lena Waithe Share A Passionate Kiss On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Hollywood Life, 23 May 2019. Accessed 29 May 2019.\n“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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Wait a minute."
      ],
      "id": "en-wayment-en-intj-lzuHJA7g",
      "links": [
        [
          "Wait a minute",
          "wait a minute"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "chiefly African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, nonstandard, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Wait a minute."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wayment.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-wayment.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-wayment.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-wayment.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-wayment.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "waiment"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wayment"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
    "English terms derived from Frankish",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old Northern French",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "weymenten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English weymenten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro-nor",
        "3": "waimenter",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Northern French waimenter (“to lament”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "gaimenter",
        "3": "guaimenter, gaimenter",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French guaimenter, gaimenter (“to lament”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*wai, *wē",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *wai, *wē (“woe”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wai",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "lamentari",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin lamentari (“to lament”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "wē",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German wē (“woe”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Weh"
      },
      "expansion": "German Weh",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "wā",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English wā (“woe”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wayments",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waymenting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waymented",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waymented",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wayment (third-person singular simple present wayments, present participle waymenting, simple past and past participle waymented)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, / When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase […]?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lament."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "lament",
          "lament"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To lament."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "waiment"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wayment"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
    "English terms derived from Frankish",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old Northern French",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "weymenten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English weymenten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro-nor",
        "3": "waimenter",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Northern French waimenter (“to lament”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "gaimenter",
        "3": "guaimenter, gaimenter",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French guaimenter, gaimenter (“to lament”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*wai, *wē",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *wai, *wē (“woe”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wai",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "lamentari",
        "t": "to lament"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin lamentari (“to lament”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "wē",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German wē (“woe”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Weh"
      },
      "expansion": "German Weh",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "wā",
        "t": "woe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English wā (“woe”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "wayment",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "And they, for pittie of the sad wayment",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lamentation; grief."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Lamentation; grief."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "waiment"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wayment"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Contraction, especially reflective of a common African American Vernacular English pronunciation. Spelling very unlikely to have been influenced by Etymology 1.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wayment",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "African-American Vernacular English",
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Genevive Chamblee, Out of the Penalty Box:",
          "text": "“Wayment. Hold up.” Christophe stopped drawing. “What the hell, Nicco? That's not a book.”\n“And 'wayment' is a word?” questioned Ramsey, chuckling at Christophe's pronunciation of “wait a minute.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2019 Jade Boren, Halle Berry & Lena Waithe Share A Passionate Kiss On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Hollywood Life, 23 May 2019. Accessed 29 May 2019.\n“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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Wait a minute."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Wait a minute",
          "wait a minute"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "chiefly African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, nonstandard, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Wait a minute."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wayment.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-wayment.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-wayment.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-wayment.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-wayment.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "waiment"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wayment"
}