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COACHES.
COACHES.
Etymology. —Coach is said to be derived from coche,caroche, or carosse: these come from caroccio, Italian ; aterm first used in the eleventh century, and invented to de-signate n military machine, so called; but was adopted fromr aretta, Italian, or from, perhaps, kitsee, Hungarian , 1 sig-nifying a large car or military waggon.
Etymologists, and among them appears a man of consi-derable erudition and infinite industry, whom we much re-spect, have puzzled themselves to discover an original forthis name, which Dr. Rees has helped us to, and which ispreviously (fortunately) given; but it has been defined byJoh. lhre, in his Glossarium Sueogothic, to come from husk,which implies, we understand, a coachman, rather than thevehicle itself. Gall, cocher; Hisp. idem. Ital. cocchio;Ang. coach; Hungary, cotezy; lielg. goetse; German ,kuische. The driver of such a carriage is called in Eng-lish coachman; in other languages it is made shorter,the French say cocher, the Germans say kusk. Menagederives the name from a Latin original, far to be sure doeshe travel for it, making it come from vehiculuni. Juniuscomes somewhat nearer when he says it is from the Greekcxi 01 , to carry. Wachter conceives it comes from theGerman word kutten, to cover; whilst Lye says it comesfrom the Belgic, koetsen, to lie along, properly signi-fying a couch or chair. Eventually, however, he conceiveshe has found it in what M. Cornides has advanced, who saysit is of Hungarian extraction, that it came from a villagecalled Kitsee, in the province of Wieselburg . But uponthe proof previously given, the public, we think, may rely;thence it is we find of ITALIAN extraction.
Musatori, in his dissertation on the rude age of Italy ,(vol. i. p. 3(50,) observes, that the inventor of the caroche,introduced after the year 1000, was Egbert, Archbishopof Milan, in the eleventh century, who directed a stand-ard of the following form should be made for his menwhen engaged in battle. “ A tall beam, like the mast