THE TIER SYSTEM
Greek prosody determines restoration depth. Two features — stress and length — define three tiers of authenticity.
Tier 1
Full Restoration
Acute Stress + Long Vowel
The Greek original carries both an acute stress mark (or circumflex) and at least one long vowel (η, ω, long α/ι/υ, or long diphthong). The transliteration preserves the full scholarly orthography.
These names have only one valid Unicode restoration. Their ASCII fallbacks are not ancient canonical forms — they are modern English spellings. There is no linguistic ambiguity.
Archetypes (15)
Tier 2
Partial Restoration
Stress Only or Length Only
The Greek original carries only one feature — either acute stress or a long vowel, but not both. The transliteration preserves whichever feature remains.
These are still authentic scholarly orthographies, but they represent a partial restoration of the original phonological system.
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Dual-Tier
The Exceptional Four
Both Features × Multiple Valid Forms
These four archetypes have multiple historically valid Unicode spellings because their Greek originals allow alternate stress positions, alternate long-vowel interpretations, or dialectal variation.
Their ASCII fallbacks are also historically legitimate. You own multiple domain variants. This is not a bug — it is a linguistic feature of these names.
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Live Punycode Converter
Type a Unicode domain to see its Punycode encoding.