a velas vir
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A (“at”) ve (“to see”) las (“them”) vir (“to come”): "watching them coming".
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]a velas vir (invariable)
- (idiomatic) broken (with no money)
- (idiomatic) helpless
- 2018, José Colmeiro, Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds: From Galicia to the World, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 246:
- E nós a velas vir
- And we are just helpless spectators
Adverb
[edit]- (idiomatic) brokenly (without money)
- (idiomatic) vulnerably, helplessly
- 2006, Paco Martín, A bisneta Lercha: contos de sempre para ler hoxe, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 64:
- Teño, ti ben o debes saber, trinta e oito anos e xa non é esta idade para andar a velas vir coma unha raposa do monte.
- I am, as you know, thirty eight years old, and this is no longer an age for wandering helplessly, broken, as a fox in the bush