UTC Cheese existed in Old English and is untraceable before that as it occurs in many Old Germanic tongues OE Anglian c se WSax c ese c se with i umlaut from c asi c aeacu si OHG ch si MHG k se Ger k se OLG k si k si MDu k se Du kaas em WGer k si ad L c amac se us cheese bef 5th c According to the OED No Latin mentioned anywhere though I don t doubt that thw words should sound similar as cheese would have been made in the indo European period and there may be a much much older connection as with the word Brother similar in Greek Latin Germanic languages and Indian Sanskrit I do not know specifically about cheese but maybe someone else does It certainly existed in English before it was English Anglo Saxon fron Anglian etc Thanks 10 52 12 May 2006