to be entrusted to another person, to take care of that person (example in the first person; see Molina); also attested as a name in 16th-c. Mexico City (Cocoltzin)
IPAspelling:
koːkoːl
Alonso de Molina:
cocol. nimo. soy a ti encomendado, paraque tengas de mi cuydado. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.