Wort

A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 · 1889 · p. 30

sb. a plant, vegetable; wortes , pl. , S2, S3, C; wort is , S2, S3, W, W2.—AS. wyrt : OS. wurt ; cp. Goth. waurts , root, and Lat. rādix ; see Brugmann, § 306, and Douse, p. 56.