[Lexicog] come as preposition

[Kenneth C. Hill]

This concerns the use of the English word "come" apparently as a
preposition. This question arises from an attempt at a good English
translation of the following Hopi sentence:

Tuho'osvàasatti-qw Humingöytiwa kareeta-y yaw húya-ni.
become:fall-subordinator H. wagon-accusative quotative sell-future

The original translation was "They say Humingöytiwa [a personal name] will
sell his wagon in the fall (autumn)." I tried structurally revealing
translation as "They say Humingöytiwa will sell his wagon come fall." (A
more literal translation would be "When it becomes fall H. will sell his
wagon.")

I have not been able to find "come" in this usage in the big
English-language dictionaries at my disposal. It might be somewhere in the
OED (my copy is the microscopic edition), but the entry for "come" there
is so extensive that I choose to send this email query before going
further.

Is "come" in this usage ("come fall") recognized by (any) English language
dictionaries?

--Ken

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