Scholarly Name Reference
also written Tarhunash
The conqueror
Scholarly reference for Tarḫunash
𒀭𒌓
The name in its original Cuneiform (Hittite, logographic) form. 𒀭𒌓 → Tarḫunash. Hittite scribes almost always wrote the Storm-god logographically as ᵈU or ᵈIŠKUR (also ᵈ10) · The underlying Hittite name Tarḫunna- is reconstructed from the Old Hittite attestation ᵈIŠKUR-un-ni (KBo 3.22 obv. 3); a fully syllabic Hittite spelling is not attested (Kloekhorst, EDHIL p. 835)
TARHUNASH
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.
Tarḫunash
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
tarḫunash.com → xn--tarunash-d29c.com
The non-ASCII characters in Tarḫunash are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Tarḫunash. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How tarhunash becomes Tarḫunash
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | h | → | ḫ | Special | Special character |
| 05 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 08 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 09 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
Why Tarḫunash is classified as Tier-1
The Hittite restoration 𒀭𒌓 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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