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 th 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 may