felkelésig

Felkelésig is a Hungarian postpositional suffix formed from felkelés and the suffix -ig. It yields a single word that expresses a temporal or situational limit—essentially “up to the moment of the rising” or “up to the uprising,” depending on context. The word is most common in written language and is relatively rare in everyday speech.

The term rests on two senses of felkelés. In a natural, temporal sense, felkelés can refer to the rising of the sun, with napfelkelésig being the standard construction for “until sunrise.” In a political or historical sense, felkelés means an uprising or rebellion, and felkelésig indicates the endpoint of a period or sequence up to that event. Because of the double meaning, the interpretation of felkelésig is determined by the surrounding discourse.

Morphologically, felkelésig is an invariable unit: the noun felkelés receives the suffix -ig, with no space, to form a bound temporal-marker. It is typically used with a preceding context that establishes the relevant starting point or duration, and it often appears in descriptions of timelines, schedules, or event sequences. In practice, it appears more readily in formal prose or scholarly writing than in colloquial speech.

Related terms include napfelkelés (sunrise) and felkelés (uprising). The suffix -ig is a common Hungarian marker that denotes the end point of a duration or extent, and felkelésig is one of several constructions formed with this suffix to express limits in time or scope.