The Authentic Orthography
War, Law, Oaths · God (cognate with Greek Zeus, Latin Jove)
Why týr.com is the correct form
Týr
The name in its original Old Norse form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
TYR
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.
Týr
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
týr.com → xn--tr-0ka.com
The non-ASCII characters in Týr are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Týr.
How tyr becomes Týr
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Same |
| 02 | y | → | ý | Stress | Acute on y |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
Why Týr is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Old Norse original Týr contains only no distinctive phonetic features. 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 Týr behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
tyr
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