Where does “雪だるま” come from?

雪だるま (Japanese) comes from Japanese 雪, from Old Japanese 雪 — snow.

雪だるま (Japanese): snowman

Definitions

  1. snowman

Ancestry of “雪だるま”, step by step

雪だるま traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 雪

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese雪snow
2Old Japanese雪snow

via Japanese だるま

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseだるまBodhidharma

via Japanese Bodhidharma]]

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseBodhidharma]]—
Every word from Old Japanese 雪 →Every word from Japanese 雪 →