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The AHD suggests that it is "Perhaps (via Black West African English) of Bantu origin; akin to Kongo -tota, to pick up, and Swahili -tuta, to pile up, carry."
http://www.bartleby.com/61/55/T0285500.html
Sounds good to me.
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