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(key): /leɪn/ Rhymes: -eɪn Homophone: lain (pane–pain merger) === Noun === lane (plural lanes) (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees. A narrow road, as in the country. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles. (athletics) A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart. (swimming) A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart. Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages. A course designated for ships or aircraft. (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled. (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. ==== Synonyms ==== (thoroughfare): carriageway, direction, roadway, side (narrow passageway): See Thesaurus:alley ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “lane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “lane”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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 == === Alternative forms === ane, anne === Etymology === From French l’année (“the year”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lane/ === Noun === lane year === References === Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 8 == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈla.ne/ Rhymes: -ane Hyphenation: là‧ne === 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(key): /lɛːn/, [lɛːn], [lɛdn] === Adjective === lane full == 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 West Midland Middle English, but lone is the usual Northern form as well, making it a relic of the wider Old English distribution. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlaːn(ə)/ IPA(key): /ˈlɔ̞ːn(ə)/ (West Midland, Northern) === 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 === === Anagrams === alen, alne, lena, Lena, la-en == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlɑ.ne/ === Noun === lane f lane, narrow path ==== Declension ==== Weak n-stem: === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “lane”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. == Polish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈla.nɛ/ Rhymes: -anɛ Syllabification: la‧ne === Participle === lane inflection of lany: neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural == Scots == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Adjective === lane (not comparable) alone == Serbo-Croatian == === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olnę. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /lâne/ Hyphenation: la‧ne ==== Noun ==== lȁne n (Cyrillic spelling ла̏не) fawn an affectionate term, dear child ===== Declension ===== ===== Alternative forms ===== lani === Etymology 2 === Same as lȃni. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /lǎːne/ Hyphenation: la‧ne ==== Adverb ==== láne (Cyrillic spelling ла́не) last year