Non-IE loans

[Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan]

In a message dated 9/6/99 1:18:14 PM Central Daylight Time,
ke.raadsrots at UNICALL.BE writes:

> But sure, there
>  are loans in Vedic, and for the sake of argument, let all the words
>  identified as loans by Kuiper be loans.  The point is: I don't recollect
any
>  of them being specifically an astronomical term.

Doesn't nALI'/nADI' (Aryans in the Rigveda, pp. 19, 27, 92) have anything to
do with nADikA, a unit of time? One would think measurement of time is
fundamental to astronomy.

Regards
S. Palaniappan