The story
- Late Latin · derived frompersōnālis“of a person, personly”
- Old French · derived frompersonal
- Anglo-Norman · derived frompersonel
- Middle English · derived frompersonal
- English todaypersonal
From Middle English personal, personele, from Anglo-Norman personel, personal, personell, Old French personal, personel, from Late Latin persōnālis (“of a person, personly”), equivalent to person + -al. Doublet of personnel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.