alflosi

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Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From al- +‎ flosi.

Verb[edit]

alflosi (present alflosas, past alflosis, future alflosos, conditional alflosus, volitive alflosu)

  1. to float in a particular direction
    Ŝtipo alflosis apud la boaton.
    A log floated up to the boat.
    • Donald Broadribb (translator), Mil Naǔcent Okdek Kvar (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell, Part 2, Chapter 2,
      El ie tre for alflosis apenaǔ aǔdebla kriado de infanoj [...]
      From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children [...]