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In article <8fa38b$up@punk.akar.hol>, Toth Andras  <totha@freemail.hu> wrote:
>Adam Jacobs <ajk@socrates.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>I thought "coach" came from the Hungarian town, "Kocs" (accent grave
>>>over the "o"), where coachmaking was a major occupation.
>>It very likely does come from the Hungarian toponym Kocs (with *no* accent
>>grave over the "o" -- Hungarian doesn't even employ the accent grave).
>
>Well, it certainly has an accent mark, just not a grave. It's K�cs if
>your computer can handle it.

Actually, no, it doesn't.  Assuming we are talking about the Kocs of coach-
making fame (Komarom-Esztergom megye -- and I'm not aware of any other
one; I don't have my atlas handy to check), it is definitely Kocs, no 
"accent mark" of any sort.  So the derivative kocsi is quite regular.

Adam Jacobs
UCLA