meekly; with feeling; little by little (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
çaniuian, zan iuian, zan ihuian
Alonso de Molina:
zaniuian. mansamente, con tiento, o poco apoco. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 14v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.