Let's pronounce "Genasi"

[Tancread]

Unfortunately I don't think genasi are mentioned in the audio portions of the Players Primer to the Outlands, which has always served as a handy planar pronunciation guide on a lot of terms.

I was just going to ask if they were in any of the audio books from the FR novels.

 

[Nahat Anoj]

I pronounce it as "jee-NAH-see."

 

[Fifth Element]

This seems like the most natural way to pronounce the word in English (General American dialect).

Yeah, a hard 'g' like in:

general
genie
generation
gentle
genuflect
gene
genesis
gender
genus

I could go on. I'm having trouble thinking of a 'gen' word that actually does have a hard 'g'.

 

[Morrus]

I've always pronounced it the same as doctorhook

Interesting, but for clarity we'd have to know how you pronounce "doctorhook", too!

 

[Gotham Gamemaster]

Originally, I went with a hard G, as in "go away!"

But I realized that was wrong, for a few reasons.

1) As someone else pointed out, G is usually soft before an E, such as in "generation" or "genuflect." However, we all know D&D and fantasy names often don't follow English structure. That said...

2) The genasi, as a concept, were originally descended from genies, and that (I'm pretty sure) is where the name came from. As such, a soft G--so it's pronounced "jenasi"--makes much more sense in-character as well.

So I pronounce it:

"jen" as in "Jennifer" or "generation"

"oss" as in "cross"

"ee" as in "Whee!" or "free."

This is how I remember Bruce Cordell and the other FR designers pronouncing it at this year's Secrets of the Forgotten Realms seminar at Gen Con.

 

[Cam Banks]

I'm the jen-AH-see camp.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Carnivorous_Bean]

I've always said "jen - AH - see" also, for what that's worth.

 

[Wonka]

Genasi

I pronounce Gen-sai

as in the bleach Bankai well the ai being pronounced like eye

This is how I pronounce it, although it was a result of me misreading the spelling as such. Ive come to like that pronunciation better so I just stick with it

 

[Remathilis]

jenna-see (no separation of the gen and a)

 

[Ethalias]

Coming from a co-worker who's originally from Turkey: jena-SIGH (sounds like Genocide without the -de).

-TRRW

I was beginning to think I was the only one! I was shocked by how many people pronounce it with an -EE sound at the end.. Not appalled though