Where does “Xerxes” come from?
Xerxes is the English name for the Persian king, derived through Ancient Greek Ξέρξης from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠, traced to Proto-Iranian xšáyati meaning "to rule" and Proto-Indo-European tek-.
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