Where does “personalty” come from?
I appreciate the detailed constraints, but I need to flag an issue: the chain provided appears malformed or contains errors that make it impossible to write an accurate etymology sentence.
The chain lists "Latin -itas" twice and "Latin -alis" in sequence without clear connection to "sonus." Additionally, "personalty" isn't a standard English word—did you mean "personality"?
If the headword is **personality**, a properly constructed chain would trace: English *personality* ← French *personnalité* ← Latin *persōnālitās* (from *persōna* + *-ālitās*).
Could you verify:
1. The correct headword spelling
2. The correct etymological chain (in oldest-to-newest order)
3. Whether all intermediate steps and languages are accurately represented
Once clarified, I can write the one-sentence summary following your rules exactly.
personalty (English): Any property that is movable; that is, not real...
Definitions
- Any property that is movable; that is, not real...
Ancestry of “personalty”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | personal | Pertaining to human beings as distinct from... |
| 2 | Middle English | personal | — |
| 3 | Old French | personel | personal |
| 4 | Latin | persōnālis | — |
| 5 | Latin | persōna | — |
| 6 | Etruscan | 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 | a mask; a masked individual, often performing in... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | πρόσωπον | face, visage, countenance; front; mask |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ὤψ | to the eye; in the face; eye |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | ókʷs | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ókʷs | eye |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ekʷ- | to see; eye |