The term peace was voted the Word of the Year by the Montágh Board of public media. Although the rich vocabulary of the Hungarian language allows us to express our thoughts in an extremely nuanced way, by choosing the Word of the Year, the Montágh Board strives to select the one word each year that best reflects the defining events and challenges of the given year, the MTVA Press and Marketing Office announced on Friday with MTI.
According to the rationale of the Montágh Board established to nurture mother tongue culture, the words of Mihály Babits -
Oh peace!
peace! let there be peace
Let it be over already!
- from a distance of more than a hundred years, they became especially relevant in 2022 and are formulated as a prayer.
Next to peace, the terms hope and faith received the most votes. As written, the meaning of peace, according to the interpretive dictionary of the Hungarian language, is the relationship or condition that exists between two or more states and peoples that are not at war with each other. In addition, a state of calm, peaceful relations, agreement between the members, groups, and classes of a country, people, or society, which is not disturbed by strife, political, social struggle, or hostility. Furthermore, the calm, quiet, undisturbed (mental) state of someone or something; peace and balance of body or soul, mood, conscience; peace, undisturbedness, harmlessness. The Montágh Board is an advisory, commenting, proposing and controlling body of the public media, whose primary task is to nurture the native language and behavioral culture, thereby supporting cultural value preservation and value creation. Starting in 2020, the public media will announce the Word of the Year in December each year based on the votes of the members of the Montágh Board. In 2020, the members chose the term each other, last year the term family.
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