Lane Definition
A topographic surname for someone who lived in a lane.
A patronymic surname anglicised from various Irish surnames.
An unincorporated community in Idaho.
Origin of Lane
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From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lane, lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”), from Proto-Indo-European *ela-, *el(ʷ)-, *lā- (“to drive, move, go”). Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), Eastern Frisian lone (“lane”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), Middle Low German lane (“a narrow passage, cattle-track”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old English
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
