Scholarly reference for Autólykos
Αὐτόλυκος
The name in its original Greek form. Αὐτόλυκος carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
AUTOLYCUS
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Autólykos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
autólykos.com → xn--autlykos-x3a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Autólykos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Autólykos. PUNYCODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How autolycus becomes Autólykos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | Same |
| 02 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 03 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 04 | o | → | ó | Stress | Acute on omicron |
| 05 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 06 | y | → | y | Same | Same |
| 07 | c | → | k | Same | Kappa |
| 08 | u | → | o | Same | Omicron |
| 09 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
Why Autólykos is classified as Tier-1 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Αὐτόλυκος preserves stress (acute/circumflex) in its Unicode restoration. There is only one historically valid spelling with this feature preserved. This is classified as a single-tier Tier-1 Accent-Preserving name.
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