α. Middle English porra, Middle English porre, Middle English porreie, Middle English porrey, Middle English porreyne (perhaps transmission error), Middle English porry, Middle English poyra, Middle English 1900s– porray.
β. Middle English pereye, Middle English perre, Middle English perrey, Middle English perreye, Middle English perry, Middle English perrye, 1500s perrie.
γ. late Middle English purre; N.E.D. (1907) also records a form late Middle English pure.