# lane
## English
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /leɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪn
* Homophone: lain

### Noun

lane (plural lanes)
* (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
    Penny Lane
* 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”‎performed by The Wolfe Tones:Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away / From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra.
* A narrow road, as in the country.
* 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
* (athletics) A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
    There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.
* (swimming) A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
    a swimming lane
* Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
    the checkout lanes in a supermarket
* A course designated for ships or aircraft.
    shipping lane
* (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
    We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.
* (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
* (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
* (video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
* (horse racing) The home stretch.
    And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* acceleration lane
* air lane
* a whisper down the lane
* back lane
* bicycle lane
* bike lane
* breakdown lane
* bus lane
* bye-lane
* bylane
* carpool lane
* chicken lane
* Chorlton Lane
* climbing lane
* collector lane
* core lane
* country lane
* crawler lane
* cruising lane
* cycle lane
* devil's lane
* diamond lane
* express lane
* fast lane
* Field-lane duck
* filter lane
* fire lane
* flashing lane
* Four Lane Ends
* free-throw lane
* granny lane
* green lane
* high-occupancy vehicle lane
* HOV lane
* inside lane
* in the fast lane
* laned
* Lane End
* Lane Ends
* lane filtering
* laner
* lane snapper
* lane violation
* laneway
* left lane camper
* left lane hog
* left lane hogger
* left lane hugger
* Lexus lane
* ln.
* ln
* local lane
* lover's lane
* lovers' lane
* memory lane
* merge lane
* New Lane
* on one's lee-lane
* overtaking lane
* passing lane
* pick a lane
* pit lane
* Rayners Lane
* red lane
* reserved bus lane
* right lane camper
* right lane hog
* right lane hogger
* right lane hugger
* running lane
* Sandy Lane
* sea-lane
* sea lane
* shared lane marking
* shipping lane
* skate one's lane
* slip lane
* slow lane
* stay in one's lane
* Street Lane
* suicide lane
* sunken lane
* swimlane
* swim lane
* transit lane
* victory lane
* whisper down the lane
* White Hart Lane
* Zil lane
* zipper lane

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “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.

### Anagrams

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

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin lāna.

### Noun

lane f
* wool

#### Related terms

* lanarûl
* lanôs

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French l’année (“the year”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lane/

### Noun

lane
* year

## Italian
### Noun

lane f
* plural of lana

### Anagrams

* ENAL, lena

## Manx
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [lɛdn]

### Adjective

lane
* full
    T’eh lane dy chreeaght.He is full of confidence.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* lone

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaːn(ə)/
* (West Midland, Northern) IPA: /ˈlɔːn(ə)/, /ˈlɒːn(ə)/

### Noun

lane (plural lanes)
* lane, alley (narrow passage between buildings)
* (by extension) Any road or street.
* (rare) A path or track.

#### Descendants

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

#### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* lana (a-infinitive)

### Etymology

From the noun lan (“LAN (party)”) +‎ -e.

### Verb

lane (present tense lanar, past tense lana, past participle lana, passive infinitive lanast, present participle lanande, imperative lane/lan)
* to attend or host a LAN party

### References

* ↑ Cf. “lane” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

### Anagrams

* alen, alne, lena, Lena, la-en

## Old English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɑ.ne/

### Noun

lane f
* lane, narrow path

#### Declension

Weak:

### References

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

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈla.nɛ/
* Rhymes: -anɛ
* Syllabification: la‧ne

### Participle

lane
* inflection of lany:
** neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
** nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Scots
### Etymology

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### Adjective

lane (not comparable)
* alone

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olnę.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lâne/
* Hyphenation: la‧ne

#### Noun

lȁne n (Cyrillic spelling ла̏не)
* fawn
* an affectionate term, dear child

##### Alternative forms

* lani

### Etymology 2

Same as lȃni.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lǎːne/
* Hyphenation: la‧ne

#### Adverb

láne (Cyrillic spelling ла́не)
* last year