Let's pronounce "Genasi"

[Huw]

Yeah, not sure that qualifies as English,

But gear, gecko, geek, geese, geld, get and Gettysburg do.

English isn't known for consistency

 

[Fifth Element]

But gear, gecko, geek, geese, geld, get and Gettysburg do.

English isn't known for consistency

I was looking for a word beginning in 'gen'. The above do not qualify as such.

 

[Logan_Bonner]

Didier Monin came to the design pit one day to ask us a question about the genasi, and pronounced it with a French accent.

So my favorite pronunciation is zhe-na-see'.

 

[blargney the second]

You can find hard-g gen's in names like Morgen and Sagen.
-blarg

 

[lutecius]

I am french too but it doesn't sound like a french word so i've always pronounced it (hard)Geh-nah-zee.

erm... now that i think of it, that sounds exactly like "gay nazi" in french. Maybe that's why D.Monin prefers "jenasi".

 

[Shemeska]

I'm not sure that the pronunciation of genie or the 'g' in arabic fully matters in this situation. It's not an arabic word, it's a created word from a fantasy setting. And the genasi don't necessarily have a monolithic descent from genie-kin either.

Regular elementals, mephits (yeah, there's an image of a honeymoon you want in your head), salamanders, and other non-genie natives of the elemental planes can be the source of a particular genasi's bloodline, assuming that it wasn't just caused by magical mishap, curse, or general exposure to the energies of the elemental planes in-utero. So should we assume "genie" should have that much importance for pronunciation purposes?

 

[Greylock]

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'.

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hth

Yeah, not sure that qualifies as English,

Hey, no moving of the proverbial goalposts! You didn't say it had to be English!

How about Gengou?

Bordet-Gengou - Definition from Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary

 

[Fifth Element]

You can find hard-g gen's in names like Morgen and Sagen.

Indeed. Should have specified initial 'gen', not terminal.

 

[Fifth Element]

Hey, no moving of the proverbial goalposts! You didn't say it had to be English!

How about Gengou?

Bordet-Gengou - Definition from Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary

Well spotted, I didn't specify English, did I?

Gengou was French, apparently. And the link specifies a soft 'g' for that one as well.

 

[Klaus]

Genasi first appeared in the 2e Planewalker's Handbook, which Monte wrote. Elemental planetouched hadn't appeared prior to that point to my knowledge, so I'd say that he created them conceptually if I had to guess. Not a clue unfortunately how he pronounced them.

And a mighty fine book that is.