vane – English noun declension

Noun: vane

Singular	vane
Plural	vanes

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like vane

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”).
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon. See: Middle English Nouns 'vane', Old English Nouns 'fana', Dutch Nouns 'vaan', German Nouns 'Fahne'.