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In article <39180E19.4FD5B0B8@lvnworth.com>,
Patrick or Cynthia Karl  <pkarl@lvnworth.com> wrote:
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>Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
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>> while coach may be somewhat older (it might be latin or something). 
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>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).   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.  

The toponym Kocs itself, it's been suggested, derives from kos 'ram' which
may have been the town's seal at some point.

Adam Jacobs
UCLA