Pundabaya wrote:
Mako is Japanese for "magic" or something, and in Japanese it's pronounced Mah-koh. I'm sure it was in a magazine I read back in the day.
Characters used are 魔晄 (makou). First character is shared with a character used for some of the more commonly used words related to magic (mahou, majustu, majou, maou, etc) . The second... is a much less common character (To the degree it's not in any dictionary I own, and it only seemingly used in names according to online dictionaries). So while not a word meaning magic per se, it appears to be a created word based on that. Possibly worth noting that the character 魔 often has negative connotations
Or perhaps they based it on a thermos flask (literally called a magic bottle there.).