Where does “effet personnel” come from?
effet personnel (French) comes from French effet, from Old French effect, from Latin effectus, from Latin efficiō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
effet personnel (French): personal effect
Definitions
- personal effect
Ancestry of “effet personnel”, step by step
effet personnel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French effet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | effet | effect; spin, bend, curl |
| 2 | Old French | effect | effect; judgment; decree |
| 3 | Latin | effectus | made out, worked out, completed, finished,... |
| 4 | Latin | efficiō | to make out or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via French personnel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | personnel | personal; staff, members of staff, personnel |
| 2 | Old French | personel | personal |
| 3 | Latin | persōnālis | personal; of or belonging to a person |
| 4 | Latin | persōna | mask |
| 5 | Etruscan | 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 | a mask; a masked individual, often performing in... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | πρόσωπον | face, visage, countenance; front; mask |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ὤψ | to the eye; in the face; eye |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | ókʷs | eye |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ókʷs | eye |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ekʷ- | to see; eye |