Scholarly Name Reference
also written Ninhursag
Lady of the mountain
Scholarly reference for Ninḫursaĝ
𒀭𒊩𒌆𒉺𒍇
The name in its original Cuneiform form. 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒉺𒍇 → Ninḫursaĝ. Sumerogram NIN.ḪUR.SAĜ (𒊩𒌆𒉺𒍇), 'lady of the mountain' · Prefixed with divine determinative 𒀭 · Great mother goddess, syncretised with Damkina/Nintur
NINHURSAG
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.
Ninḫursaĝ
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
ninḫursaĝ.com → xn--ninursa-dbb1508d.com
The non-ASCII characters in Ninḫursaĝ are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Ninḫursaĝ. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How ninhursag becomes Ninḫursaĝ
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | n | → | N | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 03 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 04 | h | → | ḫ | Special | Special character |
| 05 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 06 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 07 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 08 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 09 | g | → | ĝ | Stress | Stress on g |
Why Ninḫursaĝ is classified as Tier-1
The Mesopotamian restoration 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒉺𒍇 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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