Where does “Wertpapierfonds” come from?

Wertpapierfonds (German) comes from German Wertpapier, from German papier, from Middle High German papier, from Old French papier, from Old Catalan paper, from Latin papȳrus, from French -ine, from French -é.

Wertpapierfonds (German): securities fund an investment fund that invests its assets in various types of securities such as stocks or bonds

Definitions

  1. securities fund an investment fund that invests its assets in various types of securities such as stocks or bonds

Ancestry of “Wertpapierfonds”, step by step

Wertpapierfonds traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Wertpapier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanWertpapiersecurity
2Germanpapierpaper material
3Middle High Germanpapier
4Old Frenchpapierto murmur
5Old Catalanpaperpaper sheet material typically used for writing on or printing
6Latinpapȳruspapyrus plant
7French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
8Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
9Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
10Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
11Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
12Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
13Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via German Fonds

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanFondsfund
2Frenchfondsplural of fond; fund, funds; resources
3Old Frenchfunz
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂