vidéki

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: vi‧dé‧ki
• Rhymes: -ki

vidék +‎ -i

vidéki (comparative vidékibb, superlative legvidékibb)

1. rural (of, or belonging to the countryside or province)

vidéke (“the region/part of ……”) +‎ -i, dropping the possessive suffix -e.

vidéki (not comparable)

2. (after a geographical proper name) in/of/from the region or part of ……

   Szekszárd vidéki területek ― areas in the region of Szekszárd

It is one of the few cases in Hungarian orthography when the deletion of the possessive suffix does not entail writing the resulting phrase in solid (in one word, as a compound) as a result of elision, as opposed to the regular case when e.g. the deletion of -e in ablak üvege (“ pane of window”) results in ablaküveg (“windowpane”).^[1] These exceptions involve the adjective-forming suffix -i and they include (belseje →) belseji, (eleje →) eleji, (kora →) kori (or regular korabeli), (vége →) végi, as well as geographical adjectives like (alja →) alji, (foka →) foki, (környéke →) környéki, (köze →) közi, (melléke →) melléki, (mente →) menti, (szöge →) szögi, and (vidéke →) vidéki.^[2] Other similar constructions include (napja →) napi (anyák/​háromkirályok/​halottak napi), (tere →) téri (e.g. Örs vezér, Rózsák, Hősök téri/terei, the latter form being ambiguous, possibly referring to multiple possessions), and (útja →) úti (e.g. Királyok úti). Most of these words may also have a meaning without an implicit possessive sense.

• vidéki in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN