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laguna.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
laguna.
Principal English Translation: 

lagoon, lake (a loanword from Spanish) Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 432–433.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ompa mani alaguna = at the lake (Saltillo, 1682) -- This example is interesting for the inclusion of the preposition "a," but one might have expected alalaguna. Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 432–433.