flot

waves; stream, flood (large amount); incoming tide (of the sea); floodtide

“Un peu comme un bateau / J'avance face à la mer / Je navigue sur les flots” — A bit like a boat / I move through the sea / I sail on the waves

Inherited from Middle French flot (“considerable quantity of poured liquid, stream, flow”), from Old French flot (“mass of moving water, flood, tidal flow”), partly from Frankish *flota (“flux, streaming flow”) from Proto-Germanic *flutą (“body of water, flow”); partly from Old Norse flóð (“stream, river, flood, massive flow of water”); and partly from Frankish *flōd (“river, flood”); both from Proto-Germanic *flōduz (“river”), *flutōną (“flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw- (“to pour, wash”)