# Tilsit

> English word · Noun

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

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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tilsit