bonwort

• banwurt, bonworte, bonwourt, bonwrt, bonwurt
• bayneworte, baynewort (late North Riding)

Inherited from Old English bānwyrt, from Proto-West Germanic *bainawurti; equivalent to bon (“bone”) +‎ wort (“plant”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːnwurt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːnwurt/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːnwurt/, /ˈbanwurt/ (Northern)

bonwort (uncountable)

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

• Early Modern English: bone-wort
• Middle Scots: banwort, banwart

• “bōn-wǒrt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 July 2019.