Közepéig

Közepéig is a Hungarian grammatical form meaning "up to the middle" or "as far as the middle." It is formed from the noun közép (middle) with the suffix -ig, the combination sometimes analyzed as an attached adverbial or postpositional marker that indicates the extent of something up to its midpoint. The phonetic link vowel in the form helps ease pronunciation, resulting in közepéig.

The form functions to specify a boundary along a spatial or temporal axis. It marks that an action, state, or description reaches only to the middle point of a referent, rather than extending to the end or covering the entire span. Because of its technical nuance, közepéig is more common in descriptive, geographical, mathematical, or formal prose than in everyday speech. It tends to appear in phrases where the midpoint is a meaningful reference point, such as distance, area, or duration up to the halfway point.

Usage notes:

- It often follows a noun indicating what is being bounded, as in expressions describing the extent to the middle of something.

- It contrasts with endings meaning through (végig) or toward (felé), by specifying a precise midpoint limitation rather than an entire range.

See also:

- Hungarian suffixes, including -ig

- Postpositions in Hungarian

- közép (middle)