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From Proto-Indo-Iranian*máša-; compare Persianماش(mâš, “vetch, mung bean”) and Shughniмах̌(max̌, “pea, bean”), as well as, outside of Indo-Iranian, Albanianmodhull(“vetch”)[1] and Romanianmazăre(“peas”). Said terms seem to go back to a Proto-Indo-European*meh₂ǵʰ-(“small bean”), though based on the "local vegetable" semantic category and irregular sound correspondences between the Indo-Iranian and European terms, the source word is likely to be ultimately of non-Indo-European substrate origin.[2]
^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “mā́ṣa-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 352
^ Savelyev, A. (2017). Language Dispersal Beyond Farming. Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 284