WAYMENT
Etymology 1
Verb
wayment (third-person singular simple present wayments, present participle waymenting, simple past and past participle waymented)
(ambitransitive, obsolete) To lament.
Noun
wayment
(obsolete) Lamentation; grief.
Etymology 2
Contraction.
Interjection
wayment
(slang, nonstandard) Wait a minute.
Source: Wiktionary
Way"ment, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waymented; p. pr. & vb. n. Waymenting.]
Etym: [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai,
guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see Woe) and L. lamentari to lament.
See Lament.]
Definition: To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.]
Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer.
For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser.
Way"ment, n.
Definition: Grief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.]
Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition