wayment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, / When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase […]?"
- "And they, for pittie of the sad wayment"
- "“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."
Etymology
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.