From Hungarian 'kocsi,' after the village of Kocs, whose superior carriages became Europe's word for the vehicle.
A large, enclosed, horse-drawn carriage; a railroad car or bus; also, a trainer or instructor, especially in sports.
From French 'coche,' from German 'Kotsche,' from Hungarian 'kocsi' (pronounced roughly 'KOH-chee'), short for 'kocsi szekér' meaning 'wagon from Kocs.' Kocs is a village in northwestern Hungary on the main road between Budapest and Vienna, where superior horse-drawn carriages were first manufactured in the 15th century. The village's innovation in carriage design -- particularly a suspension system that made long-distance
The use of 'coach' for a sports trainer originated as 19th-century Oxford University slang: a tutor who 'carried' a student through an exam was metaphorically a 'coach' -- the vehicle that carries passengers to their destination. So every sports coach in the world is named after a Hungarian village where good carriages were built.
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