lane

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).

Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /leɪn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophone: lain

lane (plural lanes)

1. (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.

   Penny Lane

2. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.

   There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.

   • c. 1930, Dominic Behan (lyrics and music), “Come Out Ye Black and Tans”‎^[1]performed by The Wolfe Tones:

     Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away / From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra.

3. A narrow road, as in the country.
4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.

   Drivers should overtake in the outside lane

   We were held up by a truck in the middle lane of the freeway.

   the exit lane

5. (athletics) A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.

   There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.

6. (swimming) A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.

   a swimming lane

7. Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.

   the checkout lanes in a supermarket

8. A course designated for ships or aircraft.

   shipping lane

9. (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.

   We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.

10. (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
11. (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
12. (video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
13. (horse racing) The home stretch.

    And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.

• (thoroughfare): carriageway, direction, roadway, side
• (narrow passageway): See Thesaurus:alley

• “lane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “lane”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “lane”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Lena, enal, lean, neal, Elan, elan, élan, Lean, ELAN, Nale, Neal, nale, Alen, Alne

From Latin lāna.

lane f

1. wool

• lanarûl
• lanôs

From French l’année (“the year”).

• IPA^(key): /lane/

lane

1. year

lane f

1. plural of lana

• ENAL, lena

From Old Irish lán, from Proto-Celtic *ɸlānos (compare Welsh llawn), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

• IPA^(key): [lɛdn]

lane

1. full

   T’eh lane dy chreeaght.

   He is full of confidence.

• lone

From Old English lanu, from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō.

The form lone continues Mercian Old English lone, reflecting the dialectal rounding of Germanic */ɑn/. In most words, this rounding is only apparent in Western Middle English, but lone is the usual Northern form as well, making it a relic of the wider Old English distribution.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːn(ə)/
• (West Midland, Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːn(ə)/, /ˈlɒːn(ə)/

lane (plural lanes)

1. lane, alley (narrow passage between buildings)
2. (by extension) Any road or street.
3. (rare) A path or track.

• English: lane (dialectal loan)
  • ⇒ English: lonnen, loanen, lonnin
  • → Middle Scots: lane
  • → Welsh: lôn
• Scots: lone, loan
• Yola: laane
• → Irish: lána

• “lāne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• lana (a-infinitive)

From the noun lan (“LAN (party)”) +‎ -e.^[1]

lane (present tense lanar, past tense lana, past participle lana, passive infinitive lanast, present participle lanande, imperative lane/lan)

1. to attend or host a LAN party

• alen, alne, lena, Lena, la-en

From Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.ne/

lane f

1. lane, narrow path

Weak:

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “lane”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.nɛ/
• Rhymes: -anɛ
• Syllabification: la‧ne

lane

1. inflection of lany:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lane (not comparable)

1. alone

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olnę.

• IPA^(key): /lâne/
• Hyphenation: la‧ne

lȁne n (Cyrillic spelling ла̏не)

1. fawn
2. an affectionate term, dear child

• lani

Same as lȃni.

• IPA^(key): /lǎːne/
• Hyphenation: la‧ne

láne (Cyrillic spelling ла́не)

1. last year