Could ベビーカー be derived from "Baby carriage"?


Most etymologies I've come across for "ベビーカー" assume that it's wasei eigo
based on a combination of "baby" (ベビー) and "car" (the "カー" part of "マイカー").
For example, the Japanese edition of Wikipedia says this in a
[footnote](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%B3%E6%AF%8D%E8%BB%8A#cite_note-1)
on its article.

Could it instead be derived from a contraction of the English phrase "Baby
carriage"? I suspect that "carriage" is distantly related to "car", for what
it's worth.




Several dictionaries (大辞林, 大辞泉, 明鏡, 日本大百科全書) list ベビーカー specifically as
_wasei-eigo_ from "baby" and "car", e.g.

> **ベビーカー** 〔和 baby＋car〕

(I also checked 現代カタカナ語辞典 by 旺文社, but this doesn't have an entry for ベビーカー!)

Moreover, as @bjorn & @ericfromabeno say in the comments, "carriage" is
usually キャリッジ and a loan of "baby carriage" would more likely have been
something like ベビーキャリー.

