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LaneEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
As an English surname, from lane; as an Irish surname, from several origins, including Laighin. See Lane.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗laneEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
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”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- LaneEnglish · e-38538-6990
Lane, lān, n. an open space between corn-fields, hedges, &c.: a narrow passage or road: a narrow street: a fixed route kept by a line of vessels across the ocean.—A blind lane, a cul-de-sac. [A.S. lane; Scot, loan, lonni
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Lane, lān, a Scotch form of lone, alone,
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