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Article #5422Re: hungarian/magyar dichotomy
From: retro2218
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:00
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In article <8fccv1$i2s$1@agate.berkeley.edu>, ajk@socrates.berkeley.edu (Adam Jacobs) wrote: > In article <8fccn3$i23$1@agate.berkeley.edu>, > Adam Jacobs (that's me!) <ajk@socrates.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >citation from 1493, in Latin: "Item Curriferis kochiensibus qui de > >Buda huc Agriam cum familia mea duxerant dedy den. IIIC" which I read: > >"Item. To the coachman of Kocs who brought me here with my family from > >B. to A. I gave 300 denarii" -- presumably a line in the writer's > >accounts-book. > > Sorry, I made a typo. Coachmen, of course, not coachman. > > Adam Jacobs > UCLA > > This discussion of *coach deriving from Kocs has got me thinking of other English words that derive from towns or cities. The only two that come to mind are cologne and canter(from Canterbury). Can anybody think or some other town/city/village derived words? Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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