Scholarly Name Reference
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Scholarly reference for Dēlos
Δῆλος
The name in its original Greek form. Δῆλος carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
DELOS
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.
Dēlos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
dēlos.com → xn--dlos-bva.com
The non-ASCII characters in Dēlos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Dēlos. PUNYCODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How delos becomes Dēlos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | d | → | D | Same | Delta |
| 02 | e | → | ē | Length | Eta: long epsilon |
| 03 | l | → | l | Same | Lambda |
| 04 | o | → | o | Same | Short omicron |
| 05 | s | → | s | Same | Sigma |
Why Dēlos is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Greek original Δῆλος preserves vowel length (macron) in its Unicode restoration. There is only one historically valid spelling with this feature preserved. This is classified as a single-tier Tier-1 Macron-Preserving name.
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