köken: From Middle High German vlōz n, m, from Old High German flōz n, ultimately from the root of fließen (“to flow”). Compare Dutch vlot (“raft”), a related but different formation.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *sāl (“raft”). Cognate with Bashkir һал (hal), Kyrgyz сал (sal), Southern Altai сал (sal), Uzbek sol, Uyghur سال (sal), Azerbaijani sal Turkish sal (“raft”), Turkmen sal, Tuvan сал (sal), Yakut аал (aal), etc.
köken: Rebracketing of naak, a now-obsolete form which was still used in early modern Dutch (compare adder, from earlier nadder), from Middle Dutch aecke and non-rebracketed naecke; the latter derives from Old Dutch *nako, from Proto-West Germanic *nakwō, from Proto-Germanic *nakwô (“boat, ship”).
筏, 桴, 栰: a raft · 筏, 桴, 栰: a raft armor · 筏, 桴, 栰: a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) shaped like a raft
köken: From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE. Appears to be a compound. One proposed derivation might be from 厳し (ikashi, stem of Old Japanese adjective ikashi, “grand, large”) + 板 (ita, “board”), with ikashi ita shifting to ika ita and then ikada.