English

hypercall

hyper- + call

Formed from hyper- + call

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Proto-Germanic *kalzōną ‘to call’

Proto-West Germanic *kalʀōn

Old English ceallian ‘to call’

Old English *callian

Middle English callen ‘to call’

English call

Today it means

noun A syscall made by a guest operating system to the underlying hypervisor, rather than executing instructions that the hypervisor simulates.

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