Drohne
See also: dröhne
German edit
Etymology edit
Ca. 1600, from Middle Low German drōne (variant of commoner drāne), from Old Saxon drāna, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēnuz.
The Low German form replaced older Tren(e), Trän(e), from Middle High German tren(e), from Old High German treno, from the Germanic ablaut variant *drenô. This may have been reinforced by the desire to avoid homonymy with Träne (“tear”). The word was originally a masculine but became feminine in Early Modern German, probably under the influence of Biene (“bee”). Drones were at that time distinguished only by function; the fact that they were males was generally unknown. The aircraft sense is a semantic loan from cognate English drone.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Drohne f (genitive Drohne, plural Drohnen)
- drone (male bee)
- Coordinate terms: Bienenkönigin, Arbeiterin
- (dated) sponger, parasite
- (aviation) drone (unmanned aircraft)
Declension edit
Declension of Drohne [feminine]
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Further reading edit
- Drohne on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Drohne” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Drohne” in Duden online