totl

See also: t'otl

Lower Tanana

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *taˑtɬʼ, which had the additional meaning 'to kick, move the foot' as seen in Ahtna taatlʼ (“to kick, burst”) and Navajo -TÁÁL (“to kick, pop”). The primary Lower Tanana root for kicking is dhik.

Root

totl

to burst, pop, explode; to shoot a gun

Stem set

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Neuter	toɬ	totl	twɬ	toɬ
Customary	twtl	twtl	twtl	twtl
Semelfactive	twɬ	twɬ	twɬ	twɬ
Onomatopoeia	twtl	twtl	twtl	twtl

Derived terms

ch'eltwtl (“he/she is shooting something”)
ch'etwtl (“shooting”)
deltwtl (“he is talking loudly, there is the sound of a gunshot”)
dink'a katwtl (“gunstock”)
-katwtl (“heel”)
-lotwtl (“heel of the hand”)

References

Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 366