I start as a frozen white flutter from the sky. Add two letters to my end and I become a famous fairy-tale princess prefix, or put 'ball' after me for a winter fight. What four-letter word am I?
Snow
The word you are looking for is snow, the frozen precipitation that falls during winter. Appending '-ite' to 'snow' yields 'Snow White', while appending 'ball' produces 'snowball'. Looking for root words that compound or expand into famous phrases reveals the solution.
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