eleji

== Hungarian == === Etymology === eleje +‎ -i (adjective-forming suffix), dropping the possessive suffix -e. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɛlɛji] Hyphenation: ele‧ji Homophone: elei Rhymes: -ji === Adjective === eleji (not comparable) early ……, ……-initial, at/of/from the beginning of …… Antonym: végi a 20. század eleji írók ― the early-20th-century writers az év eleji válság ― the crisis at the beginning of the year ==== Usage notes ==== It is one of the few cases in Hungarian orthography when the deletion of the possessive suffix does not entail writing the resulting phrase in solid (in one word, as a compound) as a result of elision, as opposed to the regular case when e.g. the deletion of -e in [az] ablak üvege (“[the] pane of [the] window”) results in ablaküveg (“windowpane”). These exceptions involve the adjective-forming suffix -i and they include (belseje →) belseji, (eleje →) eleji, (kora →) kori (or regular korabeli), (vége →) végi, as well as geographical adjectives like (alja →) alji, (foka →) foki, (környéke →) környéki, (köze →) közi, (melléke →) melléki, (mente →) menti, (szöge →) szögi, and (vidéke →) vidéki. Other similar constructions include (napja →) napi (anyák/​háromkirályok/​halottak napi), (tere →) téri (e.g. Örs vezér, Rózsák, Hősök téri/terei, the latter form being ambiguous, possibly referring to multiple possessions), and (útja →) úti (e.g. Királyok úti). Most of these words may also have a meaning without an implicit possessive sense. See also the rest of the Usage notes at végi. ==== Declension ==== === References ===