a native of the Cape of Good Hope. (Du.) The word is traced
in Wedgwood, who shews that the Dutch gave the natices this
name in ridicule of their peculiar speech, which sounded to
them like stuttering. He cites the word from Schouten
(1653). En is Dutch for `and;' hence hot en tot = `hot' and
`tot;' where these words indicate stammering. Cf. hateren, to
sammer, in Hexham's Du. Dict., 1647; tateren, to tattle
(Sewel).
Skeat: English Etymological Dictionary