Coachbuilder is a compound of coach (from French coche, ultimately from Kocs, a Hungarian town famed for its wagons) + builder. Morphologically, coachbuilder is transparent: it is a compound of coach (from French coche, ultimately from Kocs, a Hungarian town famed for its wagons) + builder. Used as a noun, coachbuilder now means "a maker of bodies for cars, carriages, or railway coaches", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in derived forms such as coachbuilding and related forms such as coach, builder, and coachwork. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.