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I don't have a copy on-hand, but I think GURPS Psionics, First Ed. (the one that had a world background with an organization called the Phoenix Project) used psis-as-people.* That's in the 90's, though, not the 80's. I have no texts at hand, at the moment, to note the behavior of myself and my peers...

While the original construction, per the earlier wikipedia link (psi- from psyche and -onic from electronic, indicating consistent engineering-style applications of the mind) is terrible , retroconstruction of a corresponding root is, perhaps, even worse. The original construction of the term psion...

Hrm. Psionics as a plural noun rather than a field, the singular coming from a nouning of the adjective? That's reasonable. I can feel that. And yeah, mine was just a gut feeling too. That does leave an intriguing hole where the singular is. The term you are all forgetting is "Psi." The p...