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Hungarian
- főellenség (nonstandard: not included in explanatory or spelling dictionaries, but fairly common, even in literary texts[1] and in bilingual dictionaries from and into Hungarian[2])
Etymology
fő (“main, chief”) + ellenség (“enemy”)
Pronunciation
Noun
fő ellenség (plural fő ellenségek)[3]
- archenemy
- (video games) boss
Declension
- For the noun, see ellenség.
- The adjective fő remains unchanged.
References
- ^ Magyar Nemzeti Szövegtár ’Hungarian National Corpus’, 519 results in texts including 31 occurrences in literary texts by authors such as György Faludy, Sándor Fekete, Tibor Gyurkovics, Victor Határ, Miklós Hubay, Gyula Illyés, György Konrád, Balázs Lengyel, Ottó Orbán, and György Spiró
- ^ See főellenség in the English, German, and Chinese comprehensive dictionaries at Szótár.net
- ^ Fő ellenség as the spelling proposed by Magyar Nyelvi Szolgáltató Iroda (’Hungarian Language Services’), on the grounds that fő means here “principal, primary” rather than “chief” (as opposed to “vice-, deputy”); see also the Usage notes there.