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capitalized() lowercases Armenian Ter- and Der surnames as particles: LEVON TER-PETROSYAN gives Levon ter-Petrosyan #1224

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Armenian surnames with the priestly prefix Ter-/Der (Ter-Petrosyan, Der Kiureghian) are always written with a capital. Case repair reads the prefix as the Dutch ter and the German/Dutch der particles (nl.toml, de.toml) and lowercases it, inside a hyphenated word and spaced alike.

Measured on master 93de2cb:

Input capitalized()
LEVON TER-PETROSYAN Levon ter-Petrosyan
LEVON TER PETROSYAN Levon ter Petrosyan
ARMEN DER KIUREGHIAN Armen der Kiureghian
levon ter-petrosyan Levon ter-Petrosyan
Levon Ter-Petrosyan, force=True Levon ter-Petrosyan

Of the Wikidata English labels of Armenian citizens holding Ter/Der, 41 of 42 change when their all-caps spelling is repaired. The parse itself is right (family Ter-Petrosyan); native-script Տեր- (47 Armenian labels, all hyphenated) and Cyrillic Тер- are unaffected.

The hyphenated form looks separable: Dutch writes ter spaced (ter Horst, ter Borch), never joined to the surname by a hyphen, and case repair already reads a connective inside a hyphenated word differently (rules/R4, case repair reads the unjoined mark: "Ortega-y-Gasset"). The spaced Der Kiureghian is the shape of von der Leyen's der, so it may be an accepted cost. #1160 (a particle at the end of a hyphenated word) is the neighbouring hyphen question.

Question: should a particle opening a hyphenated word (Ter-; is there any other?) be repaired as name text, the spaced form staying as it is?

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