to make something slowly, testing to see how it will come out
Orthographic Variants:
zanno conyocuya, zannoconyocuya, çanno conyocuya, çan no conyocuya, çan no conyocoya
Alonso de Molina:
zannoconyocuya. (pret. zanonocoyocox.) 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.