Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo kill or destroy with a drone (unmanned aircraft), or with a missile fired by a drone.
From Middle English drane, dron, drone, from Old English drān, drǣn, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drenô, *drēnuz (“drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, drone, hornet”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droane (“drone”), Dutch dar (“drone”), German Drohne (“drone”), Limburgish dreen, Droon (“drone”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk drone (“drone”), Swedish drönare (“drone”); also Belarusian тру́цень (trúcjenʹ, “drone”), Bulgarian търтей (tărtej, “drone”), Czech trubec (“drone”), Macedonian трут (trut, “drone”), Polish trąd, trut, truteń (“drone”), Russian and Ukrainian тру́тень (trútenʹ, “drone”), Serbo-Croatian тру̑т, trȗt (“drone”), Slovak trúd (“drone”), Slovene trot (“drone”). The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiondraneenm
- Inherited-form mentiondrānang
- Inherited-form mention*drānugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*drenôgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*dʰreh₁n-ine-pro · bee, drone, hornet
- Cognate mentionDroanestq · drone
- Cognate mentiondarnl · drone
- Cognate mentionDrohnede · drone
- Cognate mentiondreenli
- Cognate mentiondrönaresv · drone
- Cognate mentionтру́ценьbe · drone
- Cognate mentionтъртейbg · drone
- Cognate mentiontrubeccs · drone
- Cognate mentionтрутmk · drone
- Cognate mentiontrądpl
- Cognate mentionтру̑тsh
- Cognate mentiontrúdsk · drone
- Cognate mentiontrotsl · drone
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"To kill or destroy with a drone (unmanned aircraft), or with a missile fired by a drone."
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