The Authentic Orthography
Joy, Wife of Baldr · Mother, daring
Why nanna.com is the correct form
ᚾᛅᚾᚾᛅ
The name in its original Younger Futhark form. ᚾᛅᚾᚾᛅ → Nanna. ᚾ (nauðr) writes /n/ · ᛅ (ár) writes /a/, /á/ and /æ/ · The spelling nanna is a normalized phonetic reconstruction; Younger Futhark does not distinguish voiced/voiceless stops or separate short and long vowels
NANNA
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.
Nanna
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
nanna.com → nanna.com
The non-ASCII characters in Nanna are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Nanna.
How nanna becomes Nanna
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | n | → | N | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Nanna is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Old Norse form ᚾᛅᚾᚾᛅ preserves neither stress nor length in this Unicode restoration. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 Basic name — still a scholarly step above plain ASCII, but without the distinctive phonetic features that define higher tiers.
See how Nanna behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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