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[Michael Mccafferty]

John,

I found it. Coche did exist in French. Nevermind.
>
> By way of background that is perhaps more apparent to Michael and Romance
> linguist Robert Rankin (dissertation on Romanian) than some of the rest of
> us, I take it that cochon is an augmentative in form, and is being taken
> as such by Allan Taylor, and that *coche would be the perhaps hypothetical
> underlying base or simplex form?  T