Word Origin Summary

𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 is attested in Old Persian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *wérsēnProto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. *tek-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Ксеркс

  Russian · derived from

• Ксеркс

  HBS · derived from

• Xerxis

  English · derived from

• חשיארש

  Tal (Aramaic) · borrowed from

• Xerxes

  English · derived from

• Ξέρξης

  Ancient Greek · borrowed from

• خشايارشا

  Arabic · borrowed from

• Kserks

  HBS · derived from

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