köken: Borrowed from Ukrainian чека́н (čekán), from Old East Slavic чеканъ (čekanŭ), from Proto-Slavic *čekanъ, from a Turkic language. Corresponds with many other cognates, including Romanian ciocan, Bulgarian чук (čuk), чукан (čukan), Serbo-Croatian čekić, Albanian çekan, Hungarian csákány.
köken: Etymology tree Italian zappa Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ōnem Italian -one Italian zapponebor. Slovak cepín Borrowed from Italian zappone.
köken: Possibly akin to წერა (c̣era) and ყინული (q̇inuli), breaking it down as წერ-ა-ყინ-ი (c̣er-a-q̇in-i), hence the definition. Compare წერაქვი (c̣erakvi, “pickaxe/axe for rocks”) with similar development. Tsira Baramidze instead breaks it down as წერ-აყ-ინ-ი (c̣er-aq̇-in-i), citing M. Chuxua who reconstructs Proto-Kartvelian *c̣er-q̇-in, and connects the word to some North Caucasian languages.