Scholarly Name Reference
'The intoxicating one' (Old Irish medb, cognate with 'mead'), Queen of Connacht who drives the cattle raid of the Táin Bó Cúailnge.
Scholarly reference for Medb
Medb
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual celtic names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
MEDB
This name is already attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode form Medb is identical to ASCII apart from capitalization, so no diacritic, stress, or script information was erased.
Medb
Because the name is already in Latin letters, the Unicode restoration does not add diacritics or change the script. Its value here is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the recovery of lost marks.
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How medb becomes Medb
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | m | → | M | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 03 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 04 | b | → | b | Same | Same |
Why Medb is classified as Tier-2
The Celtic name Medb is attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode restoration is identical to ASCII, so no diacritic or script recovery is needed. It is catalogued as a single-tier Tier-2 name because the scholarly form carries no stress or length marks.
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