Where does “stagecoachman” come from?
stagecoachman (English) comes from English stagecoach, from English stage-coach, from English coach, from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from French couché, from French coucher, from Middle French coucher — whale, sea monster; abyss.
stagecoachman (English): A man who drives a stagecoach
Definitions
- A man who drives a stagecoach
Ancestry of “stagecoachman”, step by step
stagecoachman traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English stagecoach
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | stagecoach | Alternative spelling of stage-coach |
| 2 | English | stage-coach | A horse-drawn coach that runs routinely between... |
| 3 | English | coach | A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse... |
| 4 | Middle French | coche | — |
| 5 | German | Kutsche | carriage; coach; A large, old automobile in poor... |
| 6 | French | couché | past participle of coucher; in bed |
| 7 | French | coucher | to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up; to... |
| 8 | Middle French | coucher | to put to bed; setting |
| 9 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 10 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 11 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 12 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 13 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 18 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 19 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 20 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via English MAN
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | MAN | Initialism of Metropolitan Area Network |
| 2 | English | manual | A handbook; A booklet that instructs on the usage... |
| 3 | Middle English | manuel | — |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | manuel | manual; done with the hands; handle; manual;... |
| 5 | Old French | manual | — |
| 6 | Latin | manuālis | hand |
| 7 | Latin | manus | hand; bravery, valor; violence, fighting |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | manus | hand |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | man- | human being; man; hand |