Scholarly Name Reference
also written Cuchulainn
Culann's hound
Scholarly reference for CúChulainn
CúChulainn
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual celtic names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
CUCHULAINN
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.
CúChulainn
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
cúchulainn.com → xn--cchulainn-58a.com
The non-ASCII characters in CúChulainn are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is CúChulainn. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How cuchulainn becomes CúChulainn
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | c | → | C | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | u | → | ú | Stress | Stress on u |
| 03 | c | → | C | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 04 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 05 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 06 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 08 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 09 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 10 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why CúChulainn is classified as Tier-1
The Celtic restoration CúChulainn preserves at least one distinctive feature its ASCII form loses — a diacritic or a distinctive letter that marks the original phonology. This makes it a single-tier Tier-1 name.
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