Völgyön
Völgyön is a Hungarian term that mainly appears as the locative form of the noun völgy, meaning valley. In Hungarian grammar, nouns take case endings to express location; völgyön historically represents “on the valley” or “at the valley” and is part of the set of suffixes such as -on/-en/-ön used to indicate position on a surface or at a place. In contemporary standard Hungarian, the preferred expression for “in the valley” is usually völgyben; völgyön is less common and tends to occur in dialectal usage, older texts, or fixed toponyms.
Toponymy: The element völgyön appears as a component in geographic names in Hungarian-speaking regions. As a
Linguistic note: Völgyön demonstrates how Hungarian uses postbases to form locational phrases and reflects the interaction
See also: Hungarian language, Hungarian toponymy, locative case in Hungarian.