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Tobacco

3 stages from Taíno to English.

Today it means the dried, cured leaves of a plant smoked or chewed for their nicotine content
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Stage 1 of 3
tabaco
Taíno · pre-1500s
"a smoking pipe or leaf roll"
possibly referring to a pipe or roll of leaves used for smoking
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Stage 2 of 3
tabaco
Spanish · 1500s
"the tobacco plant"
adopted for the plant itself after contact with the Caribbean
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Stage 3 of 3
tobacco
English · 1500s
"the cured leaf smoked or chewed"
spread through European trade and colonization
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