wyrt

In the old Vocabularies Viola frequently occurs, and with the following various translations: -- "Ban-wyrt," _i. e.

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

We have in Ælfric's "Vocabulary," "Pollegia, hyl-wyrt," which may perhaps be the Thyme, though it is generally supposed to be the Pennyroyal; we have in a Vocabulary of thirteenth century, "Epitime, epithimum, fordboh," which also may be the Wild

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

H.A. B. [Orchard is from the A.glo-Saxon _ort geard_, or _wyrt geard_; the final syllable _gard_ or _yard_, in the words cited by our correspondent, being the modern form of _the A. - S. geard_.] *****

Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

` churchyard, 'wyrt-tun, a ` vegetable garden,' and so on.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1 1981