 Meanwhile, the Occitan name of sainfoin, "luzerne", has in many languages come to mean species of the related genus "Medicago", in particular Alfalfa ("M. sativa").The native name of the Cock's Head ("O. caput-galli") is one of the few words of the extinct Dacian language that have been recorded.The Dacians called this plant "aniarsexe" or "aniassexie".