Lexicon:Modern/Heivra
| Heivra | |
|---|---|
| Stage | Modern CLT |
| Pronunciation | /ˈheɪv.ɾa/ |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Etymology | from Middle Hēvnēra, from Proto sterhevner |
| Related words | Charmoy, Droen, Poysr, Klabak, Sangeit |
Heivra — the plucked and strummed gut-string instrument. Cheap, portable, and in every tavern in the world.
Notes
Six gut strings over a hollow body, no mechanism of any kind, and a thing a working man can afford. It is the instrument a person learns on, which means it is the instrument most often heard played badly.
The Iron Coves runs on them, being the only instrument nobody needs a guild to be taught. See Music and Animei.
The Proto form was a pre-Fall phrase naming a song rather than an instrument; the first element was already lost by the Middle period, and nobody living knows what either half once meant.