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portare, to carry' Aha: portage!
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So, is there a relation between 'carry', 'door', and 'seaport'?
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So, is there a relation between 'carry', 'door', and 'seaport'?
Yes, in Latin, porta 'gate; door', porto 'to carry', and portus 'entrance; harbor'] are all related. They are from PIE *per-, *perə- 'to transport, carry over; to come across; to translate; to pentrate; to fly'. Congeners in other IE languages are German fahren 'to drive, ride, travel', English fare, ferry, English ford, Greek Ευφράτης (Euphratēs) 'Euphrates', literally 'good ford', by folk etymology from Akkadian Purattu, cf. Sumerian Buranun.
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'Euphrates', literally 'good ford' Eureka! Good...good what, please?
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ford. like ford the stream, perhaps?
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ford. like ford the stream, perhaps?
Yes, Cody, it's not the automobile, it's a shallow place in a creek, river, what have you where things can get through without getting too wet. Oxford (< Oxenford) 'cow ford'.
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Eureka! Good...good what, please?
If only. Nope the eu- in euphemism, euthanasia, and eucharistic is from the PIE root *su- 'good', but the eu- in eureka 'I have found (it)' is from PIE *wer- 'to find'. Different roots.
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...it's a shallow place in a creek, river, what have you where things can get through without getting too wet. Oxford...I feel there's something just below the surface of the Thames, here. 
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Eureka! Good...good what, please?
If only. Nope the eu- in euphemism, euthanasia, and eucharistic is from the PIE root *su- 'good', but the eu- in eureka 'I have found (it)' is from PIE *wer- 'to find'. Different roots. ah, now after re-reading Jackie's post, I finally make sense of what she was asking. /slaps himself upside of his ownself's head.
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Butt... for the kick in the butt to get one out of the door could it be exportare?
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