геверни

Adapted borrowing of Hungarian hever +‎ -ни (-ni), possibly via a semantic shift of earlier Old Slovak heverný (“(of cattle) not used for sledding, intended for breeding”).

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɛrni
• Hyphenation: ге‧вер‧ни

геверни (heverni) (not comparable, abstract noun геверносц)

1. idle
2. not doing work, not working

   Synonym: безроботни (bezrobotni)

   нєшка швето, та людзе геверни ― nješka šveto, ta ljudze heverni ― today is a holiday, so people aren't working

3. spare, free (not in use)

   геверни годзини ― heverni hodzini ― spare hours

   маце єден геверни карсцель? ― mace jeden heverni karscelʹ? ― do you have one spare chair?

4. ready (prepared for immediate action or use)

   нє мам геверни пенєжи ― nje mam heverni penježi ― I don't have cash (literally, “I don't have ready money”)

5. on sale, for sale

   у валалє нєт геверней жеми ― u valalje njet hevernej žemi ― in the village there is no land for sale

геверни (heverni) m pers (feminine equivalent геверна, related adjective гевернїцки)

1. (nominalized) idler, loafer

   Synonyms: безроботни (bezrobotni), гевернїк (hevernjik)

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “геверни”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “idle”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 142