mac

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Translingual

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mac

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

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of mackintosh.

Noun

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mac (plural macs)

  1. Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
    • 1969, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, 0:04 from the start, in The Ballad of John and Yoko‎[1] (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
  2. (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.
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of macaroni.

Noun

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mac (uncountable)

  1. (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!
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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Uncertain.

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Noun

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mac m (plural macs)

  1. (balearic) small stone, pebble
    Synonym: còdol

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French

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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mac m (plural macs)

  1. (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

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Noun

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mac m (plural macs)

  1. (colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.

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Irish

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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mac m (genitive singular mic, nominative plural mic)

  1. son
  2. 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

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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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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mac mhac not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Kashubian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mati.

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Noun

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mac f

  1. mother

Further reading

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  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “macierz”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[2]
  • “mac”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka, Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

K'iche'

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Noun

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mac

  1. (Classical K'iche') sin

Manx

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Etymology

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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

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mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mec)

  1. son

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Mutation

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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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Middle English

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Noun

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mac

  1. Alternative form of make (“equal, partner”)

Middle Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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mac m (genitive mic, nominative plural mic)

  1. son
Descendants
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  • Irish: mac
  • Manx: mac
  • Scottish Gaelic: mac
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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mac m

  1. bond, surety

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Mutation

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Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
mac mac
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/		 unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  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

Old Irish

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Noun

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

  1. Alternative spelling of macc (“son, child”)

Inflection

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

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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mac m (plural maci)

  1. poppy
Declension
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Declension of mac
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mac macul (niște) maci macii
genitive/dative (unui) mac macului (unor) maci macilor
vocative macule macilor

Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

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mac

  1. quack (sound made by ducks)

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /maʰk/, [maxk]
  • Hyphenation: mac

Noun

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mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mic)

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

Declension

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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

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

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Mutation

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Mutation of mac
radical lenition
mac mhac

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

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Slovincian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *màti.

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mac f

  1. mother (human female who begets a child)

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Southwestern Dinka

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Etymology

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

Noun

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mac (plural mɛ̈c)

  1. fire
  2. light firearm
  3. prison

References

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  • Dinka-English Dictionary‎[5], 2005
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