wayment

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Definition of wayment in English English dictionary

To lament

For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment, / When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase ?.

Grief; lamentation; mourning

To lament; to grieve; to wail

Etymology

() Middle English waymenten from Old Northern French waimenter "to lament" (compare Old French guaimenter, gaimenter "to lament"), a conflation of Old French wai, guai "woe", of Germanic origin, 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.