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Galician
Etymology
A (“at”) ve (“to see”) las (“them”) vir (“to come”): "watching them coming".
Pronunciation
Adjective
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
a velas vir
- (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