Where does “Aktienfonds” come from?

Aktienfonds (German) comes from German Fonds, from French fonds, from Old French funz.

Aktienfonds (German): equity fund, stock fund a mutual fund that invests principally in stocks

Definitions

  1. equity fund, stock fund a mutual fund that invests principally in stocks

Ancestry of “Aktienfonds”, step by step

Aktienfonds traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Fonds

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanFondsfund
2Frenchfondsplural of fond; fund, funds; resources
3Old Frenchfunz

via German Aktien

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanAktien
Every word from Old French funz