Etymology

wallhack

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Today it means: A patch enabling a player to cheat by modifying the properties of walls, as by making them transparent or nonsolid. Full definition →

English hack ← Middle English wal ← Old English weall
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*welH-
  2. Proto-Italic*walso-
  3. Latinvallum
  4. Proto-West Germanic*wall
  5. Old Englishweall
  6. Middle Englishwal
  7. Englishwall
  8. Englishhack
  9. English todaywallhack

From wall + hack.

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