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: Inherited from Vulgar Latin root *stimulāria, from Latin stimulus (the archaic variant form strămur may derive directly from stimulus). Compare Aromanian strimburari, Megleno-Romanian strămulari.
köken: A loanword, however its origin is debated: # Borrowed from a Turkic language. Compare Chagatai [script needed] (čaqan, “battle-axe”). # Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Slovene čekan (“tusk”), Czech čakan (“mattock”).
köken: Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)tey- (“sharp object”) that might also be found in stilus, stīva. This could be an unextended variant of the same root found in *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), the source of Ancient Greek στίζω (stízō, “to mark”), although De Vaan is skeptical of the connection.