coach
KOHCH · noun
Origin
English coach comes from Middle French coche, borrowed from German Kutsche, which came from Hungarian kocsi. Historians say the word traces back to Kocs, a small Hungarian town known for building carts and running transport routes between Vienna and Budapest.
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Journey
The word first named a horse-drawn carriage. By around 1830, Oxford University slang used it for a tutor who 'carried' a student through an exam, and by 1861 that sense had extended to athletic trainers.
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From German