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Sequoia

2 stages from Cherokee to English.

Today it means a very large evergreen redwood tree native to California
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Stage 1 of 2
Sequoyah
Cherokee · 1800s
"a Cherokee leader's name"
named after the Cherokee scholar who created the Cherokee syllabary
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sequoia
English · 1800s
"a giant redwood tree"
botanists named the giant redwood tree genus in his honor
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