Re: hungarian/magyar dichotomy

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From: Gustav Horvath
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00

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On 9 May 2000 21:47:46 GMT, ajk@socrates.berkeley.edu (Adam Jacobs)
wrote:

>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).   The
>wagons made there were called kocsi szekerek 'wagons from Kocs'; later the
>word kocsi alone came to refer to the town's most famous product.  Hence G.
>Kutsche, etc. etc.  

In what year was the kocs-i kocsi was supposedly invented?

Gustav

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