Jolly Snowmen
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Frosty the snow man lyrics/ Word Origins?
Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul,
With a corncob pipe and a button nose
and two eyes made out of coal.
Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale, they say,
He was made of snow but the children
know how he came to life one day.
There must have been some magic in that
old silk hat they found.
I need to find 6 words from the the lyrics that's word origin is not Old English. The six words consist of 2 old french words, 1 old norse word, and the reamining 3 consist of 2 latin words and 1 persian
I'll try these one at a time, but you can also try candidate words by searching via Google with the terms: etymology and
Trying "magic" ... I find: "The word 'magic' ultimately derives from Magus (Old Persian maguš), one of the Zoroastrian astrologer priests of the Medes. " So there's your Persian word.
"Jolly" has French origin -- Jolly: c.1305, from O.Fr. jolif "festive, merry, amorous, pretty" ...
"Button" is also of French origin -- Button: 1265, from O.Fr. bouton, boton "a button, bud," from bouter, boter "to thrust" ...
"Fairy" is the third word I see with French origin -- Fairy: c.1300, "enchantment, magic," from O.Fr. faerie "land of fairies, meeting of fairies, enchantment, magic," from fae "fay," from L. fata (pl.) "the Fates." But your question said there were only two French-origin words?
"Silk" comes from Asia and then Greece ... but through Old English ("O.E.), so I guess it doesn't count for this question: O.E. sioloc, seoloc "silk," ultimately from an Asian word (cf. Chinese si "silk," Manchurian sirghe, Mongolian sirkek) borrowed into Gk. as serikos "silken," serikon "silk" (cf. Gk. Seres, a name for an oriental people from whom the Greeks got silk).
Steve .... these are all that I found. I hope this has been helpful to you. Maybe your teacher meant to cover some additional verses as well?
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