ծեծեմ

Uncertain.

Scheftelowitz connects with Sanskrit जज (jaja, “warrior”), जजति (jajati, “to fight”). This is accepted by Ačaṙean who reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *ǵeǵ- for both, adducing also Sanskrit जञ्जति (jañjati, “to fight”) and Old Armenian ծանծ (canc, “chaff”) as cognates. According to Ačaṙean, Georgian წეწავს (c̣ec̣avs, “tousle, dishevel something; make a mess of something; card the wool”), წეწვა (c̣ec̣va, “carding of wool; tousling of hair; tearing out of tufts of hair”), ძეძგავს (ʒeʒgavs, “pound, pulp something; thrash somebody”), ძეძგვა (ʒeʒgva, “pounding, pulping; thrashing somebody; hitting somebody hard”) are borrowed from Armenian.

J̌ahukyan is skeptical of the above Indo-European etymology, because a reconstruction *ǵeǵ- is missing from Pokorny and Mayrhofer, and wonders if we are dealing with a borrowing from Georgian-Zan, if the above Georgian words are not borrowed from Armenian.

ծեծեմ • (cecem)

1. (transitive) to strike, beat

   ծեծեմ զկուրծս ― cecem zkurcs ― to beat the breast

   • 5th century, Pʿawstos Buzand, Hayoc Patmutʿiwnʿ [History of the Armenians] V.4:[1][2]

     Եւ հասանէր Ուռնայրի արքային Աղուանից ի փախստեանն, եւ նիզակաբնաւն ի կառափն մատուցեալ ծեծէր բազում, ասելով՝ թէ այդմ շնորհս կալ, զի այր թագաւոր ես, եւ թագ ունիս․ ես ոչ սպանից զայր թագաւոր, թէ կարի նեղ հասցէ ինձ: Եւ ութ հեծելով թոյլ ետ նմա փախչել գնալ յաշխարհն Աղուանից:

     Ew hasanēr Uṙnayri arkʿayin Ałuanicʿ i pʿaxsteann, ew nizakabnawn i kaṙapʿn matucʿeal cecēr bazum, aselov, tʿē aydm šnorhs kal, zi ayr tʿagawor es, ew tʿag unis; es očʿ spanicʿ zayr tʿagawor, tʿē kari neł hascʿē inj: Ew utʿ hecelov tʿoyl et nma pʿaxčʿel gnal yašxarhn Ałuanicʿ:

     • Translation by Nina G. Garsoïan

       And he caught up with Uṙnayr king of Ałuankʿ, who was fleeing, and struck him over the head with many blows of the shaft of his lance, saying, "Be grateful that you are a king and wear a crown, for I will not kill a king, even though great harm come to me." And he allowed him to escape with eight horsemen and go to the realm of Ałuankʿ.

2. (transitive) to crush, grind, pound

• Armenian: ծեծել (cecel)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “ծեծ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 451ab
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836), “ծեծեմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1013c
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “ծեծ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 361ab
• Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879), “ծեծեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 309b
• Scheftelowitz, J. (1904), “Zur altarmenischen lautgeschichte”, in Beiträge zur kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 28, page 295