The Authentic Orthography
Light, Crafts, Skills · Oath (from Old Irish lúg)
Why lúg.com is the correct form
Lúg
The name in its original Celtic form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
LUGH
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.
Lúg
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
lúg.com → xn--lg-rka.com
The non-ASCII characters in Lúg are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Lúg.
How lugh becomes Lúg
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | l | → | L | Same | Same |
| 02 | u | → | ú | Stress | Acute on u: stressed syllable |
| 03 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 04 | h | → | Drop | Dropped: silent in Old Irish |
Why Lúg is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Celtic original Lúg contains only stress (acute accent). 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 Lúg behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
lugh
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Lúg