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como.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
como.
Principal English Translation: 

as, like
(a loanword from Spanish)

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

(cōmoh?), loan particle. as, in the capacity of Sp.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 215.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn aalCaltt horor por Sudad yhuatzin fiscal santa ygelcia ... y nehuatl Commo alCalde hordinario (Centlalpan, Chalco, 1736)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 10.