eleji

eleje +‎ -i (adjective-forming suffix), dropping the possessive suffix -e.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛlɛji]
• Hyphenation: ele‧ji
• Homophone: elei
• Rhymes: -ji

eleji (not comparable)

1. 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

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”).[1] These exceptions involve the adjective-forming suffix -i and they include (belseje →) belseji, (eleje →) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), (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.[2] 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.

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