English

Hackintosh

Blend of hack + Macintosh.

Proto-Indo-European *keg-

Proto-Germanic *hakkōną ‘to chop’

Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn ‘to hack, chop’

Old English *haccian ‘to hack’

Middle English hacken

English hack

Scottish Gaelic Mac an Tòisiche

English McIntosh

Today it means

noun A computer other than a Macintosh that has been configured to run the Macintosh operating system (OS X or macOS).

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Etymograph / Hackintosh