Where does “cheese” come from?

I need to point out that there's a significant problem with the chain you've provided: it traces "cease" and related words meaning "to stop," but you've asked me to write about "cheese," which has a completely different etymology. Cheese does not derive from Latin *cesso* or *cedo* (which relate to yielding/stopping). Cheese comes from Latin *caseus*, which has its own separate etymological path. I cannot write an accurate one-sentence summary using the chain you've given, as it doesn't match the headword. Could you either: 1. Provide the correct etymological chain for "cheese," or 2. Clarify that you meant to ask about "cease" instead?

cheese (English): A dairy product made from curdled or cultured...

Definitions

  1. A dairy product made from curdled or cultured...

Ancestry of “cheese”, step by step

cheese traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English cheesy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcheesyOverdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd,...
2Middle Englishchesy

via Middle English chese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishchesecheese dairy product
2Old Englishċīesecheese

Words derived from “cheese

Every word from Middle English chesy