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navío.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
navío.
Principal English Translation: 

ship
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
nabio
Attestations from sources in English: 

auh yeh nican. mexico. hualhuia yn acallli. yehuatl yn quitocayotia. navio. yn hueyapan pollaquico = The boat, the kind they call a ship, was coming here to Mexico when it sank on the lake (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 96–97.