Mary LILA, Director, Plants for Human Health Institute | Cited by 13,890 | of North Carolina State University, Raleigh (NCSU) | Read 387 publications | Contact Mary LILA
The host star is the closest star to the Sun, at a distance of about 4.2 light-years (1.3 parsecs) from Earth, and is part of the larger triple star system Alpha Centauri.
Lexical borrowing is a common process across languages. Even so, words borrowed into a language are rarely borrowed perfectly, but instead undergo modification vis-à-vis their realization in the source language from which they were borrowed…