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ave.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
ave.
Principal English Translation: 

hail (as in hail Mary)

Orthographic Variants: 
aue
Attestations from sources in English: 

aue Maria = Hail Mary (early sixteenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 112.