Etymograph

English

failback

From fail + back.

A compound of fail + back

Latin fallō ‘to deceive’

Vulgar Latin *fallīre

Old French falir ‘to fail’

Middle English failen

English fail

Proto-Germanic *baką ‘back’

Proto-West Germanic *bak

Old English bæc

Middle English bak ‘the back’

English back

Today it means

noun The restoration of a system in a state of failover back to its original state (before the failure occurred).

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