porte cochère

The story

1. Hungarian · derived fromkocsi“cart; horse carriage”
2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*per-“to go through; to carry forth, fare”
3. Latin · derived fromporta“door; entrance; gate; passage”
4. French · borrowed fromporte cochère
5. English todayporte cochère

Unadapted borrowing from French porte cochère (literally “coach gateway or coachman's gateway”): porte (“door; gateway”) (ultimately from Latin porta (“door; entrance; gate; passage”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth, fare”)) + cochère (from coche (“stagecoach”) + -ière (feminine form of -ier (suffix forming the names of occupations, etc.)). Coche is ultimately from Hungarian kocsi (“cart; horse carriage”), from Kocs, a village in Hungary known for making carriages.

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