purse. noun
Oxford: A small pouch of leather or plastic used for carrying money, typically by a woman.
Cambridge: a bag, often with a handle or a strap going over the shoulder, used esp. by women[…]
Merriam-Webster (farther down): a usually leather or cloth bag used by women for carrying money and personal things
Dictionary.com: a woman’s handbag or pocketbook.
It’s kind of feminine.
The real question though, is whether Apreche says “bahg” or “bayg”.
I say bag the same way I say drag, rag, sag, or mag.
It seems you had the gist of it. I was/am very concerned with being labeled as a sexist.
Language being used as a weapon to perpetuate social norms that harm certain communities is nothing new. A fictional society called The Culture gets around this by using a synthetic language designed specifically not to do this.
I’d love to live in a society where we do something similar. But we don’t live in such a society. We live in this society:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgQDAKsOh-M