English

iMac

IMac comes from English Mac.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 2016, Woody Leonhard, Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies: “When you deal with iPhones and iPads (and the…”

A compound of mac ‘son’ + an + tòisiche ‘chief, leader’

Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- ‘to raise, increase’

Proto-Celtic *makʷos ‘son’

Proto-Celtic *makkʷos

Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚔ

Old Irish macc ‘son’

Middle Irish mac ‘son’

Scottish Gaelic mac ‘son’

Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- ‘to raise, increase’

Proto-Celtic *makʷos ‘son’

Proto-Celtic *makkʷos

Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚔ

Old Irish macc ‘son’

Middle Irish mac ‘son’

Scottish Gaelic mac ‘son’

Scottish Gaelic an

Proto-Celtic *towissus ‘leadership’

Proto-Celtic *towissākos ‘leader’

Primitive Irish ᚈᚑᚃᚔᚄᚐᚉᚔ

Old Irish toísech

Scottish Gaelic tòisiche ‘chief, leader’

First use appears in 1998, from i- (‘internet’) + Mac (‘Macintosh’).

Every English word from English Mac

noun One of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.

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