köken: From cacio (“cheese”) + cavallo (“horse”), inherited from Old Italian. More likely calqued from Neapolitan, or Sicilian casucavaḍḍu (or from dialectal cascavaḍḍu). Doublet of cosacavaddu.
köken: From Romanian cașcaval (“kashkaval”), from Ottoman Turkish قاشقوال (kaşkaval), from Italian caciocavallo (“a type of South Italian cheese”) (literally, "horse cheese"), from cacio (“cheese”) + cavallo (“horse”). Modern Turkish spelling is kaşkaval.