to test something, to see if it will work out or turn out (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
çannocompiqui
Alonso de Molina:
zannocompiqui. (pret. zanonocompic.) hazer algo atiento, o prouando auer si saldra conello. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 14v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.