Scholarly reference for Tēthys
Τηθύς
The name in its original Greek form. Τηθύς carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the 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. PUNYCODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
The deep ancestry of Tēthys
Grandmother (from τήθη)
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 preserves vowel length (macron) in its Unicode restoration. There is only one historically valid spelling with this feature preserved. This is classified as a single-tier Tier-1 Macron-Preserving name.
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