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techialoyan.

Headword: 
techialoyan.
Principal English Translation: 

an inn; where people can be seen; the name of a group of pictorial and textual Nahuatl-language manuscripts that were produced as part of a workshop possibly led by Diego García Mendoza Moctezuma around 1700

Alonso de Molina: 

techialoyan. meson.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 92r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Techialo-yān = Donde la gente es observada
Miguel León-Portilla, "Los nombres de lugar en náhuatl," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 15 (1982), 41.