köken: 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 trën(e), from Old High German trëno, from the Germanic ablaut variant *drenô. This may have been reinforced by the desire to avoid homonymy with Träne (“tear”). The word…
a lazy person · a sloth (mammal of the suborder Folivora)
çekim: çoğul luiaards
köken: From Middle Dutch luyaert. By surface analysis, lui (“lazy”) + -aard. The sense "anteater" is secondary, referring to the perceived laziness of the animal.
slug (any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc) · snail (not as a zoological term) (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell, such as ones used as food) · snail, sluggard (slow person)
çekim: çoğul etanat · tamlayan etanan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *etana, further origin unknown. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”) and/or *etunaz (“overeater, glutton”).
köken: Perhaps from the metathesis of an unattested *casalán, from Arabic كَسْلَان (kaslān, “lazy”). Compare Spanish holgazán. Alternatively a derogatory formation from lacón (“pig shoulder”), as its synonym lacoeiro.