The Authentic Orthography
Wrath, Son of Thor · The angry one
Why móði.com is the correct form
ᛘᚢᚦᛁ
The name in its original Younger Futhark form. ᛘᚢᚦᛁ → Móði. ᛘ (maðr) writes /m/ · ᚢ (úr) writes the rounded back vowels /u, o, ø, ǫ, y/ and /w/ · ᚦ (þurs) writes both þ and ð · The spelling muþi is a normalized phonetic reconstruction; Younger Futhark does not distinguish voiced/voiceless stops or separate short and long vowels
MODI
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.
Móði
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
móði.com → xn--mi-wjal.com
The non-ASCII characters in Móði are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Móði.
How modi becomes Móði
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | m | → | M | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | o | → | ó | Stress | Stress on o |
| 03 | d | → | ð | Special | Eth: voiced dental fricative |
| 04 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
Why Móði is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Old Norse original ᛘᚢᚦᛁ 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 Móði behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
modi
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Móði