Lane

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Old English, related to Dutch laan ; of unknown ultimate origin.

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From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lane, 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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lane (n.)

Old English lane, lanu "narrow hedged-in road," common Germanic (cognates: Old Frisian lana, Middle Dutch lane, Dutch laan "lane, alley, avenue," Old Norse lön "small, oblong hayrick," in modern use "row of houses"), but of unknown origin. From early 15c. as "any well-defined track;" as "one track of a marked road" from 1921, American English.