banwyrt

• bānuyrt — Northumbrian
• bānewyrt — late
• bānwert, bānwurt — rare

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *bainawurti; equivalent to bān (“bone”) +‎ wyrt (“plant”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːnˌwyrt/, [ˈbɑːnˌwyrˠt]

banwyrt m

1. A plant used to mend bone fractures (particularly pansy, daisy or comfrey).

Strong i-stem:

• Middle English: bonwort, banwurt, bonworte, bonwourt, bonwrt, bonwurt, bayneworte, baynewort (late Northern)
  • Early Modern English: bone-wort
  • Middle Scots: banwort, banwart

• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “bān-wyrt”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.