[INDOLOGY] When -akṣ- becomes -ekh- ?

[Westin Harris]

Greetings Indologists,

I am posting for a colleague who is working with a "very bright
undergraduate student" on a research paper that falls slightly outside her
(and my) areas of expertise.

Her student is looking for thoughts/sources that discuss the evolution of
-akṣ- to -ekh- in certain South Asian vernaculars. Some examples that
immediately come to my mind are "Gorekha" (from gorakṣa) and "Alekha" (from
alakṣya) in Odia.

They are also looking for sources discussing how such phonetic changes can
impact orthography (like how some phonetic changes come to be reflected in
writing, while others are not?) and/or meaning (like how Odia "alekha"
takes on the semantic range of both a+√lakṣ and a+√likh?).

Thank you all.


*Sincerely,*

*Westin Harris*
Ph.D. Candidate
Study of Religion
University of California, Davis
https://religionsgrad.ucdavis.edu/people/westin-harris
<https://religions.ucdavis.edu/people/westin-harris>

2021 Dissertation Fellow,
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies

Sarva Mangalam.
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