Drohne

Etymology
Ca. 1600, from (variant of commoner ), from, from , from.

The Low German form replaced older, , from 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬, from the Germanic ablaut variant. This may have been reinforced by the desire to avoid homonymy with. The word was originally a masculine but became feminine in Early Modern German, probably under the influence of. 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.

Noun

 * 1) drone male bee
 * 2)  sponger, parasite
 * 3)  drone unmanned aircraft
 * 1)  drone unmanned aircraft