α. Old English banwyrt, late Old English banvyrt, late Old English banwert, early Middle English banewvrt, early Middle English 1500s banwurt, Middle English banworte, Middle English baynewort (northern), Middle English bayneworte (northern), Middle English benwort (perhaps transmission error), 1500s banwoort, 1500s–1600s (northern and Scottish) banwort; English regional (northern) 1800s bainwort, 1800s– banwort, 1800s bennert (Cumberland), 1800s benwort (Cumberland), 1800s– banewort.
β. early Middle English bonwurt, Middle English bonwort, Middle English bonworte, Middle English bonwourt, Middle English bonwrt, Middle English bowort (perhaps transmission error), 1500s–1700s 2000s– bonewort.