caseus.
cheese; pressed curd; comic term of endearment (L+S);
Meaning & usage
cheese
Where this word comes from
Unknown according to De Vaan. The old hypothesis deriving it from Proto-Indo-European *kwath₂ (“to ferment, become sour”) has the problem that *w isn't supposed to disappear in Latin (the expected outcome would start with qua- and not ca-). In this case, the cognates listed under *kweth₂- are perhaps loans from the same substrate source as the Latin term. A loan from a neighbouring Italian language, especially Sabine, has also been posited. Alternatively, taking into account Ossetian цыхт (cyxt) (<< Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to sting”)), Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”) can be tentatively supposed as an ultimate source of the term; however, the vowel length mismatches.
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