English

mailcoach

From mail + coach.

A compound of mail + coach

Proto-Germanic *malhō ‘leather bag’

Frankish *malhu ‘bag’

Old French male ‘bag, wallet’

Anglo-Norman male

Middle English male ‘bag’

English mail

Middle French coche

English coach

Today it means

noun A horse-drawn coach used to deliver mail.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / mailcoach