mac

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mac"

Symbol

mac

(international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Macedonian.

Pronunciation

enPR: măk, IPA^(key): /mæk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -æk
Homophones: Mac, mack, Mack

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackintosh.

Noun

mac (plural macs)

Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
- 1969, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, 0:04 from the start, in The Ballad of John and Yoko‎ (music video), The Beatles (actor), Vevo, published 2017:
  Standing in the dock at Southampton / Trying to get to Holland or France / The man in the mac said / You've got to go back / You know they didn't even give us a chance
(UK, US, Canada, Australia, slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Scottish descent, used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses, a reference to the frugality of Scottish people.

Derived terms

pac-a-mac

Translations

mackintosh — see mackintosh

Etymology 2

Clipping of macaroni.

Noun

mac (uncountable)

(Canada, US, slang) Clipping of macaroni.
Is there any mac and cheese left?
- 1998, Dennis Doyle, edited by Alison Sage, Treasury of Children's Poetry, Shirley Said, page 177:
  Who wrote "kick me" on my back?
  Who put a spider in my mac?
- 2019, Gail Green, Marci Peschke, Lunch Recipe Queen (Kylie Jean), North Mankato, Minn.: Picture Window Books, Capstone, →ISBN, page 6:
  Nothing tastes better to me than a big ol' bowl of super creamy, cheesy mac!

Derived terms

Anagrams

ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

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Etymology

Uncertain.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmak]

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

(balearic) small stone, pebble
Synonym: còdol

Derived terms

mac de torrent
macar

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

(colloquial, slang) Clipping of maquereau (“pimp”).
- 1997, “Elle donne son corps avant son nom”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:
  Devant la porte, y’avait le type du bar, la baraque / On a compris, mais trop tard, que ce mec était leur mac
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

(colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.

Etymology

From Old Irish macc,^[1] from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”) (compare Welsh mab, Gaulish mapos, Maponos).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mˠak/, /mˠɑk/^[2]^[3]^[4]

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, nominative plural mic)

son
(capitalized) A common prefix of many Irish and Scottish names, signifying "son of".
Dónall óg donn Mac Lochlainn ― young, brown-haired Donald, son of the Scandinavian

Declension

More information bare forms, case ...

Declension of mac (first declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	mac	mic
vocative	a mhic	a mhaca
genitive	mic	mac
dative	mac	mic

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an mac	na mic
genitive	an mhic	na mac
dative	leis an mac don mhac	leis na mic

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Coordinate terms

iníon (“daughter”)

Derived terms

An tAthair-Mhac
Dia an Mac
garmhac
leanbh mic (“young son”)
leasmhac
Mac (surname prefix)
mac an daba m (“ring finger”)
mac léinn
mac rí
mac tíre
macghníomh
macra
millteán mic (“prodigal son”)
oidhre mic (“male heir”)
páiste mic (“young son”)

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Mutated forms of *mac*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
mac	mhac	not applicable

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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

[1]
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
[2]
Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 105, page 57
[3]
Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 189
[4]
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 411, page 135

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡s/
Rhymes: -at͡s
Syllabification: mac

Noun

mac f

mother

Noun

mac

(Classical K'iche') sin

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“to raise, increase”).

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mec)

son

Derived terms

mac-

Mutation

More information Manx mutation, Radical ...

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mac	vac	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Noun

mac

Alternative form of make (“equal, partner”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“to raise, increase”).

Noun

mac m (genitive mic, nominative plural mic)

son

Descendants

Irish: mac
Manx: mac
Scottish Gaelic: mac

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *makkos. Cognate with Welsh mach.^[1]

Noun

mac m

bond, surety

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Mutation of *mac*
radical	lenition	nasalization
mac	mac pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

[1]
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mach”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Noun

mac m (genitive maic or meic, nominative plural maic or meic)

Alternative spelling of macc (“son, child”)

Inflection

More information Masculine o-stem, Singular ...

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	mac	mac^L	maic^L, meic
Vocative	maic, meic	mac^L	macu^H
Accusative	mac^N	mac^L	macu^H
Genitive	maic^L, meic	mac	mac^N
Dative	mac^L	macaib	macaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic макъ (makŭ), from Proto-Slavic *makъ (“poppy”). Compare Serbo-Croatian mak, Polish mak.

Noun

mac m (plural maci)

poppy

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	mac	macul	maci	macii
genitive-dative	mac	macului	maci	macilor
vocative	macule		macilor

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Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

mac

quack (sound made by ducks)

Etymology

From Middle Irish mac, from Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos. Cognates include Irish mac and Manx mac.

Pronunciation

(Lewis, Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /maʰk/^[1]
(Harris, Uist, Barra, Skye) IPA^(key): /maxk/^[2]
Hyphenation: mac

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mic)

son
Used as a prefix for Irish and Scottish patronymic surnames; -son
mac Dhòmhaill ― MacDonald (literally, “son of Donald”)

Declension

More information indefinite, singular ...

Declension of *mac* (type I masculine noun)
indefinite
	singular	plural
nominative	mac	mic
genitive	mic	mhac
dative	mac	mic; macaibh^✝

definite
	singular	plural
nominative	(am) mac	(na) mic
genitive	(a') mhic	(nam) mac
dative	(a') mhac	(na) mic; macaibh^✝
vocative	mhic	mhaca

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^✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

mac-an-aba
macail
uchd-mhac

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Mutation of *mac*
radical	lenition
mac	mhac

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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

[1]
Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
[2]
Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *màti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡s/
Rhymes: -at͡s
Syllabification: mac

Noun

mac f

mother (human female who begets a child)

Etymology

Cognate with Jumjum maañ, Belanda Bor mac, Shilluk mac.

Noun

mac (plural mɛ̈c)

References

Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

[1] [1]
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[2] [2]
Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 105, page 57

[3] [3]
Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 189

[4] [4]
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 411, page 135

[5] [1]
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mach”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

[6] [1]
Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

[7] [2]
Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

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