quiahuatl ithualli, "entrance + patio = household;"
See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 22.
Ye nicān nicchihchīhuaz; ye nicān nicyōlītīz in tenānquiāhuatl, cuauhquiāhuatl, in Tōllān ohtli = Right here I will make the wall-doorway, the wood-doorway, the road to Tollan [i.e., the snare] (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 96.