Tilsit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Former name of Sovetsk: a city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
  2. A light-yellow semihard smear-ripened cheese of East Prussian origin.

Word forms

Tilsit

Etymology

From German Tilsit, from the name of the Tilse River, from Old Prussian tilzi (“soggy”).

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