Tilsit

See also: tilsit

English

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Tilsit cheese

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Etymology

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

Noun

Tilsit (uncountable)

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

Translations

former name of Sovetsk

French: Tilsit (fr) f German: Tilsit (de) n Lithuanian: Tilžė ? Old Prussian: Tilzi ? Polish: Tylża (pl) f Russian: Тильзи́т m (Tilʹzít)

cheese

Finnish: tilsitjuusto, Tilsit-juusto German: Tilsiter m Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Polish: ser tylżycki m Russian: тильзи́тер m (tilʹzíter)

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Tilsit

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Alternative forms

• Tilsitt

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /til.sit/

Proper noun

Tilsit f

1. Tilsit (former name of Sovetsk: a city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)