The Authentic Orthography
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Why étaín.com is the correct form
Étaín
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual celtic names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
ETAIN
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.
Étaín
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
étaín.com → xn--tan-9law.com
The non-ASCII characters in Étaín are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Étaín.
How etain becomes Étaín
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | e | → | É | Stress | Stress on e |
| 02 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 03 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 04 | i | → | í | Stress | Stress on i |
| 05 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why Étaín is classified as Tier-1 Accent-Preserving
The Celtic name Étaín is represented by its most canonical scholarly spelling. For non-Greek names, Tier-1 status reflects the definitive attested restoration rather than Greek-style stress/length features. This is the authoritative Unicode form — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Étaín behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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