alane

From aluminium + -ane.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.aɪn/

alane (plural alanes)

1. (inorganic chemistry) Aluminium hydride, AlH₃.
2. (organic chemistry) Any organic derivative of this compound.

• This is the current IUPAC name, but is to be replaced by alumane because the systematically derived name of the -AlH₂ group would be alanyl which is already used as a derivative of alanine.

• Leana, aneal

From Middle English alane.

alane (not comparable)

1. alone

alane (not comparable)

1. alone

• “alane, adj., adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

From Middle English alane.

• IPA^(key): /əˈlaːn/

alane

1. alone
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 23-24:

     proo'th, y'at wee alane needeth ye giftes o'generale rights, az be displayte bie ee factes o'thie goveremente.

     proves that we alone stood in need of the enjoyment of common privileges, as is demonstrated by the results of your government.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114