1654: horse and carriage Jun 25, 2019

In the old days, automobiles were called 'horseless carriages', but there's some irony to that. The same root that horse has relations to many other words related to running or moving, including 'course', 'chariot', 'hurry', and of course, 'carriage' and 'car'. It also has plenty of cognates in other languages, like the French 'courir' (to run), and the Welsh 'car', meaning 'wagon'. See more about horses, see yesterday's post. 

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