The largest and tallest tree on earth, the Giant
Sequoia, is named after the famous American Indian Sequoyah (1770-1843), the son of a white trader and an Indian woman who created the Cherokee alphabet. It took over twelve years to complete a writing system which was based on a table of characters which represented the 83 sounds in the Cherokee language.
The name
Sequoia was applied to the giant Californian trees by Stephen Ladislaus Endlicher (1804-1849), a Hungarian botanist who decided to honour the lengendary Cherokee leader in 1847.
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El árbol más alto del mundo, la
Sequoia gigante, lleva el nombre del indoamericano Sequoyah (1770-1843), creador del alfabeto cherockee, hijo de un comerciante blanco y una mujer india. Durante doce años, desarrolló un sistema escrito basado en una tabla de caracteres que representantaban los ochenta y tres fonemas del lenguaje cherokee.
El nombre
Sequoia fue aplicado a las gigantes coníferas californianas por Stephen Ladislaus Endlicher (1804-1849), un botánico húngaro que decidió, en 1847, rendir homenaje al líder cherokee.
Photo by
Zrim. / Source: Charlie Lopez’s
In a Word.
August was formerly called sextilis because it was the sixth month in the old Roman Calendar.
