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Coach

4 stages from Hungarian to English.

Today it means a person who trains and instructs others, or a large road or rail vehicle
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kocsi
Hungarian · 1400s
"a wagon from Kocs"
literally "of Kocs", the village where the vehicle was built
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Kutsche
German · 1500s
"a horse-drawn carriage"
the design spread across Central Europe
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coche
French · 1500s
"a large carriage"
adopted for the fashionable new carriages
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coach
English · 1500s
"a carriage; later, a trainer"
later extended metaphorically to a personal trainer or tutor
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