The Authentic Orthography
Fresh Water, Nursing · Grandmother (from τήθη)
Why tēthys.com is the correct form
Τηθύς
The name in its original Greek form. A name that carries the full phonetic weight of its source tradition.
TETHYS
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.
Tēthys
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
tēthys.com → xn--tthys-iza.com
The non-ASCII characters in Tēthys are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Tēthys.
How tethys becomes Tēthys
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Tau |
| 02 | e | → | ē | Length | Eta: long epsilon |
| 03 | t | → | t | Same | Tau |
| 04 | h | → | h | Same | Theta |
| 05 | y | → | y | Same | Upsilon |
| 06 | s | → | s | Same | Sigma |
Why Tēthys is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Greek original Τηθύς contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Tēthys behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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