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1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVII:
a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost ?’
This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with ide-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni(“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see ide-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.
1Semhogy and semmint are conjunctions meaning “(rather) than”, “before” (as in inkább meghal, semhogy… ― he'll rather die than…). 2Valamint is now only used in the sense of “as well as” in enumerations. 3Mindeddig/-addig mean “up until this/that point” (= egészeneddig/addig). Csak following relative pronouns expresses “-ever”, e.g. aki csak(“whoever”); is after “any” pronouns emphasizes “no matter”: akármit is(“no matter what”).
Further reading
ide in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.