Etymograph

English

airwall

From air + wall, by analogy with firewall, than which it is more secure.

A compound of air + wall

Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ ‘mist, air’

Latin āēr

Old French air

Middle English aire

English air

Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to turn’

Latin vallum ‘wall’

Proto-West Germanic *wall ‘wall’

Old English weall ‘wall’

Middle English wal

English wall

Today it means

noun The notional part of a network configuration which isolates computers physically from connection to a wider network such as the Internet.

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