Floß

Etymology
From, , from  , ultimately from the root of. Compare 🇨🇬, a related but different formation.

Noun

 * 1) raft

Usage notes

 * The word is always neuter in contemporary German, the masculine being obsolete. Nevertheless Floß takes the formally masculine plural Flöße, thus being the only neuter with a plural in -e + umlaut. The regularized form Floße is sometimes heard in the vernacular.