Etymograph

English

Local Fluff

From local + fluff from the relative "fluffiness" of the local interstellar medium resulting in a low density cloud of matter in relation to the surrounding space.

A compound of local + fluff

Old Latin stlocus

Latin locus ‘a place’

Late Latin locālis ‘belonging to a place’

Middle English local

English local

Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁-

West Flemish vluwe

English fluff

Today it means

name A relatively dense region of interstellar space (containing our Solar System) that formed where the Local Bubble met another bubble, the Loop I Bubble

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