The Authentic Orthography
Wilderness, Animals, Fertility · The Horned One (from Gaulish)
Why cernunnos.com is the correct form
Cernunnos
The name in its original Celtic form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
CERNUNNOS
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.
Cernunnos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
cernunnos.com → cernunnos.com
The non-ASCII characters in Cernunnos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Cernunnos.
How cernunnos becomes Cernunnos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | c | → | C | Same | Same |
| 02 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 05 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 07 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 08 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
| 09 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
Why Cernunnos is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Celtic original Cernunnos contains only no distinctive phonetic features. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name. The Unicode restoration preserves what can be preserved — honoring the single feature that distinguishes it from plain ASCII.
See how Cernunnos behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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