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oztoyotl.

Headword: 
oztoyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

relating to caves; e.g. cave-dwelling (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 165.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

…namechcaualltico yn amoztoyoyn amotepeyo…. = …que abandonen la vida cavernícola y serrana.
(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 187, 165.

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