Etymograph

English

Loonix

Blend of loon + Linux, possibly influenced by -oomer (“used to form the names of Wojak characters, or, by extension, caricaturized personifications of a given trait/quality”).

A compound of loon + Linux

Middle English louen ‘rascal’

English loon

The story

Blend of loon + Linux, possibly influenced by -oomer (‘used to form the names of Wojak characters, or, by extension, caricaturized personifications of a given trait/quality’).

Today it means

name Linux (a family of operating systems).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Loonix