Is there ANY relation between Pennsylvania and Transylvania?

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Sylvan means "woods.

"Transylvania was first referred to in a Medieval Latin document in 1075 as ultra silvam, meaning "beyond the forest" (ultra meaning "beyond" or "on the far side of" and the accusative case of sylva (sylvam) "woods, forest"). Transylvania, with an alternative Latin prepositional prefix, means "on the other side of the woods". Wikipedia

Pennsylvania is "Penn's Woods"

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