Meginduló

Meginduló is a Hungarian term formed from the verb megindul, meaning to begin to move or to be set in motion, with the present-participle suffix -ó. It functions primarily as an adjective and is used to describe something that is starting to move or that has begun to operate. In prose, meginduló can refer to phenomena or processes that are just beginning, for example meginduló mozgás (movement that has started) or meginduló folyamat (an initiating process).

As a word, meginduló is most often used attributively to emphasize the initiating or starting aspect of a subject. For general reference to the moment of onset, however, Hungarian more commonly uses megindulás, which is the corresponding noun meaning onset or initiation. Thus meginduló tends to foreground the action or agent driving motion rather than the discrete moment of start.

Usage notes: the form appears more frequently in technical, descriptive, or literary contexts. In everyday speech, megindulás or phrases with elindulás (to start, to set off) are typically preferred for describing beginnings.

Etymology: meginduló is built from meg-, a prefix signaling consideration of the entirety or initiation, plus indulni (to begin to move), with the -ó suffix forming a present-active participle used as an adjective.

Related terms include indulás (start, onset), megindulás (onset, initiation), elindul (to start), and indító (initiating).