RE: [microsound] RE: [personal] Re: [microsound] DRONES

["mark" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK - last one=20

"drone (n.) - O.E. dran, dr=E6n "male honeybee," from P.Gmc. *dran-,
probably imitative; given a figurative sense of "idler, lazy worker"
(male bees make no honey) before 1529; v. is c.1500, apparently
imitative."

from http://www.etymonline.com/d6etym.htm

So in summary - The name Drone for a male bee appears to have been=20
onomatopoeic from *its* sound and then other similar sounds (most=20
notably bagpies) where named after it.

so there you go

cheers=20

mark=20

-----Original Message-----
From: mark [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 23 April 2003 12:07
To: 'microsound'; 's'agita recordings'
Subject: [microsound] RE: [personal] Re: [microsound] DRONES

The best I can find is that of comes from the sound of a Bee the male of
which is called a Drone - which comes from:

"Middle English, from Old English drn"

At which point I get stuck not knowing Old or Middle English. So I
couldn't tell you if Drn has any relevant meaning...

cheers=20

mark=20

-----Original Message-----
From: s'agita recordings [mailto:mothra@xxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 23 April 2003 12:00
To: microsound
Subject: [personal] Re: [microsound] DRONES

this may help ...

>From The Webster's Dictionary
Displaying Items 1 through 5
Definitions

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Drone (v. i.) v. i.
  1. The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See
Honeybee.
  2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a
sluggard.
  3. That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as:
(a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the
two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.
  4. A humming or deep murmuring sound.
  5. A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.

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Droned (imp. & p. p.) imp. & p. p.
  1. of Drone

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Drone (n.) n.
  1. To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring
sound.
  2. To love in idleness; to do nothing.

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Drone bee
  1. The male of the honeybee; a drone.

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Drone fly
  1. A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See
Eristalis.

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Dronepipe (n.) n.
  1. One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fabio Selvafiorita" <selvanet@xxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 12:04 PM
Subject: [microsound] DRONES

| just a curiosity...what's the origin of the term DRONE? and why its
related
| to that kind of sounds?
| bye
| Fabio
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