Where does “coach” come from?
Coach comes from Middle French coche, from Hungarian kocsi, from French coucher meaning "to lay down," ultimately from Latin colloco meaning "to place together."
coach (English): A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse...
Definitions
- A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse...
Ancestry of “coach”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | coche | — |
| 2 | German | Kutsche | carriage; coach; A large, old automobile in poor... |
| 3 | French | couché | past participle of coucher; in bed |
| 4 | French | coucher | to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up; to... |
| 5 | Middle French | coucher | to put to bed; setting |
| 6 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 7 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |