Drove
Old English drāf, related to drīfan ‘to drive’.
wiktionary
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf(“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō(“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ-(“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-(“to support”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef(“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef(“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip(“a drove”), Swedish drev(“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif(“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan(“to drive”).
etymonline
drove (n.)
"a herd, especially of cattle," Old English draf "beasts driven in a body; road along which cattle are driven," originally "act of driving," from drifan "to drive" (see drive (v.)).
drove (v.)
Old English draf, past tense and obsolete and dialectal past participle of drive (v.).
