ás vegadas

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese a vegadas (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): a / ás + vegadas ~ "at occasions".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [as βeˈɣaðɐs]

Adverb

ás vegadas

1. sometimes; occasionally

   Synonym: ás veces

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 278:

     Mays dígouos tãto desta donzela que, cõmoquer que ela era moy fremosa, que aas vegadas era sandía

     But I tell you as much about this maiden who, given that she was very beauty, sometimes she was silly

   • 1954, Manuel María, “O Carro”, in Terra Chá:

     Non canta na Chá ninguén.
     Por eso o meu carro canta.
     Canta o seu eixo tan ben
     que a señardade me espanta.
     Non hai canto tan fermoso:
     fino como un asubío.
     Anque é, ás vegadas, saudoso,
     faise, no ar, rechouchío.

     Nobody is singing in the Plains
     that's why my cart sings.
     Its axle sings so good
     that it drives off my loneliness.
     There is no song so beautiful:
     high-pitched as a whistle.
     Albeit it is, sometimes, lonesome
     in the air it becomes a tweet.

Related terms

• vegada

References

• “vegada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vegadas” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “vegada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ás vegadas” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.