Scholarly Name Reference
also written Mithra
Contract, covenant
Scholarly reference for Miθra
𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀
The name in its original Avestan form. 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 → Miθra. Yasht 10, the hymn to Mithra, preserves this spelling. · The intervocalic -th- of the restoration corresponds to Avestan θ (𐬚). · Unicode restoration Mithra uses the same consonants as the Avestan original.
MITHRA
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.
Miθra
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
miθra.com → xn--mira-1md.com
The non-ASCII characters in Miθra are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Miθra. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How mithra becomes Miθra
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | m | → | M | Same | Same |
| 02 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 03 | t | → | θ | Special | Theta |
| 04 | h | → | Drop | Not written | |
| 05 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Miθra is classified as Tier-2
The Zoroastrian form 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 preserves neither stress nor length in this Unicode restoration. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name — a faithful scholarly form, without the distinctive phonetic features that define Tier-1.
See how Miθra behaves in the PUNICODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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