Etymology

coachman

coach·man
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Today it means: A man who drives a horse-drawn coach: a male coach driver. Full definition →

Middle English man ← Old English mann ← Proto-West Germanic *mann
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pekʷ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pékʷeti
  3. Proto-Italic*kʷekʷō
  4. Latin*quoquō
  5. Latincoquō
  6. Late Latincoquus
  7. Proto-West Germanic*kok
  8. Old High Germanchoch
  9. Middle High Germankoch
  10. GermanKoch
  11. HungarianKoch
  12. HungarianKocs
  13. Hungariankocsi
  14. GermanKutsche
  15. Middle Frenchcoche
  16. Englishcoach
  17. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  18. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  19. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  20. Old Englishmann
  21. Middle Englishman
  22. English todaycoachman

From coach + -man.

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