English
readback
Deverbal from read back.
Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- ‘to think, arrange’
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Proto-Germanic *rēdaną ‘advise’
Proto-West Germanic *rādan ‘to advise’
Old English rǣdan ‘to counsel’
Middle English reden ‘to counsel’
English read
Proto-Germanic *baką ‘back’
Proto-West Germanic *bak
Old English bæc
Middle English bak ‘the back’
English back
Today it means
noun The act of reading data back from a location where it has been stored.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / readback