I think in broad terms these are still basically the same thing.I dunno if I entirely agree with that. I think they fit more into either the Greek daimon or Roman genius loci concepts. That is, genies bound to objects are real dang close to the idea of the "spirit of a place," just swapping "place" for "object." And daimones, to the ancient Greeks, were...spirits of any kind, regardless of their nature; what we call "demons" today would have been called kakodaimones then, specifically evil spirits, to be contrasted against agathodaimones, overtly good spirits.
So you could quite easily shift them in the direction of Greco-Roman stuff instead. Particularly since you could leverage the tale of Pandora's urn for the idea of powers (evil and good) being trapped inside vessels of various kinds. Perhaps call them "pandorians" or the like.
What are brownies if not spirits of place?
You can certainly divide up a lot of these things into different types of things. So that Fey lords are different from spirits of place.
But this wouldn't be dividing things up by culture of origin, but rather by function.
The main distinct feature of D&D genies is their tie to specific elements, but the problem with leaning into this I think is think is that it's the least interesting thing about them (and elementals without a specific cultural origin already exist and are pretty boring.)
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