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Orthographically y should be substituted for i or ie only at the end of words. In other locations it should indicate the original vowel was a Greek upsilon or Icelandic u with i-umlaut, which has been unrounded to |i| in English but retains the Y character to indicate its foreign origin, i.e. Cyprus, Lydia. Since Greek Ekaterine does not contain an upsilon, it should preferably be spelled Katherine.