flottare

Borrowed from French flotter.

flottàre (first-person singular present flòtto, first-person singular past historic flottài, past participle flottàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (intransitive) to undulate (of the sea) [auxiliary avere]
2. (intransitive) to bob (of an object floating in the water) [auxiliary avere]
3. (intransitive) to glide on the water (of a seaplane) [auxiliary avere]
4. (transitive) to float (logs)
5. to separate (minerals) using flotation

• flotta
• flottaggio
• flottante
• flottazione
• flottiglia

• flottare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• feltrato, flotterà

flotta +‎ -are (“-er”)

flottare c

1. a log driver or timber rafter (person who transports logs on flowing water)
   • 1952, Hugo Lindh, “Flottarkärlek [Log driver love]”‎^[1]performed by Gösta "Snoddas" Nordgren:

     Jag var ung en gång för längesen, en flottare med färg. Alla jäntor var som vax uti min famn. I alla torp, i alla byar hade jag en liten vän, ifrån Norderås till skiljet ner vid Berg.

     I was young once, a long time ago, a log driver with color [maybe charming, vital, not gray, etc. – not a (well-known) idiom]. All the girls [somewhat folksy word for girl] were like wax in my arms [embrace]. In every croft, in every village [in all crofts, in all villages], I had a little friend, from Norderås to the log boom [from skilja (“separate”), in the sense of a place where logs are separated] down by Berg.

• flotta
• flottning

• flottlägga (“bundle logs into a raft”)
• flottläggning (“bundling of logs into a raft”)
• skilje
• sågverk (“sawmill”)
• timmerflotte (“raft of bundled logs”)

• “flottare”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “flottare”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)