voguer

to travel through the water; to wander

“Un soir, t’en souvient-il ? nous voguions en silence ; / On n’entendait au loin, sur l’onde et sous les cieux, / Que le bruit des rameurs qui frappaient en cadence / Tes flots harmonieux.” — Recall the evening we sailed out in silence? / On waves beneath the skies, afar and wide, / Naught but the rowers' rhythmic oars we heard / Stroking your tuneful tide.

Possibly from Italian vogare, itself perhaps from Latin vocāre, possibly related to Ancient Greek βαυκάλη (baukálē, “crib”), or alternatively possibly of Germanic origin (related to vogue), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to sway, fluctuate”).