section_path: Etymology
section_name: Etymology
paragraph_text: Etymology
  
  The word "soy" derives from the Japanese soi, a regional variant of shōyu, meaning "soy sauce".
  
  The name of the genus, Glycine, comes from Linnaeus. When naming the genus, Linnaeus observed that one of the species within the genus had a sweet root. Based on the sweetness, the Greek word for sweet, glykós, was Latinized. The genus name is not related to the amino acid glycine.