How does one pronounce "Peiste"?

[Fernehalwes]

Oh, here's one (that may have been answered before, I have tarubrains): the pronunciation of 'leve' itself. I want something to shove down my friend's throat when he pronounces it "levee"- I mean uh, to settle a long running LS dispute!

I'll cover this one in the future as well, but I wanted to reply right away because leve is such a major term.

Here on the team, we've been pronouncing the word 'leave'. In fact, 'leve' is an archaic spelling of the word 'leave' that was used between 13th and 16th centuries.

Why look! Here's an example from Fitzherbert's The Book of Husbandry (1523)

"Seldom doth the housbande thryve withoute the leve of his wyfe."

Preach it Fitzherbert!

The reason behind using this word in the first place can be seen here in the in-game explanation given by leve distributors:

"In a city as large as this one, there will always be those who are looking for someone willing to assist them with their troubles. Instead of doing the searching on their own, they often come to us. We, in turn, document their petitions and then offer them to our clientele―fine men and women such as yourself. These tasks are what we like to call "levequests," and if someone happens to be interested in accepting one, we present them with a guildleve that is used in conjunction with the quest. Guildleves are, in effect, passes which grant their bearers "leave" to perform various actions which might otherwise be prohibited. These actions include, but are not limited to, the collection of forbidden items, the eradication of beasts, the admittance to restricted areas, and more."

I hope this helps!

[Estellios]

I just thought of another one last night. How do we pronounce Miqote? I just skirt the issue by calling them "catgirls"

[Mikita]

I just thought of another one last night. How do we pronounce Miqote? I just skirt the issue by calling them "catgirls"

If we take the Japanese pronunciation as the official way to say it -- ミコッテ would be pronounced mee-koh 'tay

Sorry I don't know how to write proper phonetic symbols...

But "mee" just sounds like the English word "me" (I wrote it that way to avoid pronouncing it like "may" as one might be inclined to do if they know how to romanize Japanese characters)

And there is a glottal stop between "koh" and "tay", as indicated by the (reverse) apostrophe when written as Miqo'te.

[deathstix]

Extending this beyond Peiste (which to me actually sounds more like a brand of cymbals?!), here's ZAM's list of FF XIV NPCs for to you take a pick...
FF XIV NPCs

my favourite Blacksmith guild's Smydhaemr..... Smid-day-mer?
As for Shposhae... someone mentioned "shop-shop" on his blog so I'd go with that cos it's cute

[Anonymoose]

I've been wondering about peiste for a while. I've heard "paste" "pee-ist" "pyste" "pyse-tee" ... but "peace-tuh," huh? I never got far enough in the research to get to that one.

The first time I did some research on it, I thought I hit paydirt with the fact that there is a "peiste" in the Spanish language; however, that ended up being a form of the verb peer, which means to break wind ... which would make "pee-ay-stay" a good name for a dodo... but I digress.

LATER research led me to the gaelic term "pèist," which means reptile (same as Ferth up there), taken from the same Latin roots as the word "biast" (which led in turn to the English word "beast"). However, the modern Irish pronunciation of this word (which is now associated with worms) is something like "paysht."

If you combine all that, you'd end up with a few technical options that nonetheless sound extremely similar if you were to say them over Mumble or such... You've got "paysht" and "paysteh" ... "paste" if you're lazy.

Now I have to remember "peace-tuh" if that's what they say 'round the water cooler at SE. I need some Eorzean IPA.

Now if only we can force someone in a voiced cutscene to say "Thaw-muh-terj" we'll be all set. No more of this "thurm-uh-tahj" or this "thur-ma-mage" nonsense.

Also, if you can't get audio files up, I'll try to find a way to do it with fan resources

I can see it now...

"SO I SAYS TO THAT 'THAW-MUH-TERJ', YOU GET OUT THERE, YOU START THAT 'LEAVE,' AND YOU GIVE THAT 'PAYSHT' WHATS FOR, OR I'LL TELL ADMIRAL 'MERRIL-WIBB BLOW-FISS-WIN' THAT YOU'RE WALKIN' THE PLANK."

[Urthdigger]

Now if only we can force someone in a voiced cutscene to say "Thaw-muh-terj" we'll be all set. No more of this "thurm-uh-tahj" or this "thur-ma-mage" nonsense.

Thermamage (Thur-ma-mage) is a special kind of casting class specializing in fire and blizzard spells.

[CSLionheart]

I came to this forum to make a thread about the correct pronunciation of "Louisoix" and saw this thread. So, there's another one to add to the list.

[Ferth]

I came to this forum to make a thread about the correct pronunciation of "Louisoix" and saw this thread. So, there's another one to add to the list.

If you look at Reinhart's translation page for his work on Yoshi-p's latest posts, in the section where he is talking about Louisoix the translation Reinhart comes up with is Ruizawa, which fits with a french pronunciation "Loo-ee-s-wah" pretty well.

Rein's post

[Mikita]

If you look at Reinhart's translation page for his work on Yoshi-p's latest posts, in the section where he is talking about Louisoix the translation Reinhart comes up with is Ruizawa, which fits with a french pronunciation "Loo-ee-s-wah" pretty well.

Rein's post

Just a small note. In Japanese his name is written ルイゾワ which would be Ruizowa (middle is an "o" rather than "a").

[Obsy]

...which fits with a french pronunciation "Loo-ee-s-wah" pretty well.

Sweet, I've been getting it right with zero experience in French pronunciations.