masmalo

Etymology

 * possibly related to 🇨🇬 (< ?, possibly < common proto-form, but ). The Samic word has been proposed to be borrowed from Pre-Germanic *moms-mo- (compare 🇨🇬).

means "(animal) groin" and "bag, pouch, bundle" in dialects (with semantic development probably from the former to the latter). The plant sense is probably from 's Flora Fennica (1860), but the reason for its adoption is unclear.

Noun

 * 1) kidney vetch
 * 2) any plant of the genus
 * 3)  the genus