英语词汇stocks and bonds的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

stocks and bonds; stock market. Both stocks and bonds have their etymological roots in substantial things. No one knows exactly how the words came to be applied to securities, but stocks comes ultimately from the Old English word stocc, for “tree trunk,” and bonds from the early English band, meaning “fastening.” Stock market, and ultimately stocks, may come from the name of a London meat and fish market called the Stock Exchange near the site of the Mansion House in the 15th centu- ry. An ancient source says this market was so named because it was built on a site where “had stoode a payre of stocks for a punishment of offenders.”

词汇	stocks and bonds
词源	stocks and bonds; stock market. Both stocks and bonds have their etymological roots in substantial things. No one knows exactly how the words came to be applied to securities, but stocks comes ultimately from the Old English word stocc, for “tree trunk,” and bonds from the early English band, meaning “fastening.” Stock market, and ultimately stocks, may come from the name of a London meat and fish market called the Stock Exchange near the site of the Mansion House in the 15th centu- ry. An ancient source says this market was so named because it was built on a site where “had stoode a payre of stocks for a punishment of offenders.”
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