If δίφρος (carriage) stands for διφόρος, it means originally a carriage for two persons, just as ἀμφορεύς, Latin _amphora_, was a vessel with two handles. We should scarcely believe that the same root is concealed in the German _Zuber_ (tub) and _Eimer_ (bucket). But _Zuber_ was originally _Zwiber_, a vessel with two handles, and _Eimer_ was _Einber_, a bucket with one bail. We may compare _manubrium_ (handle) and derivatives like _candelebrum_, _lugubris_, as well as _luctifer_. If _bhartri_ meant bearer and then husband, as _bhâry[~a]_ meant wife, _i.e._ the one to be maintained, we are probably justified in seeing in _bhrâtar_ (brother) the original meaning of helper, protector. Although the wife is to be maintained and sustained, she, too, brings something to the household, and that is the φέρνω (dowry). The Middle Latin expression _paraphernalia_ is properly dowry, though it has now assumed an entirely different meaning. “To be carried” easily takes the meaning of being torn away, _s’emporter_, and this we find in the Greek represented by φέρεσθαι, in the Sanskrit in the secondary form _bhur_ (to hasten), yielding _bhuranyú_, _bhúrni_ (hasty, violent), and other derivatives. We have already seen how φόρος and φορά signified that which is contributed, then duty, tribute. This is the Gothic _gabaur_, that is, _gebühr_ (due), and consequently all things that are proper or becoming. _Offerre_ (bring before) leads to _Opfer_ (sacrifice) and to the simpler _offrir_, as _sufferre_ to _souffrir_ (suffer). It has been usual to derive _Fors_, _Fortuna_, from _ferre_,(50) the goddess who brings, although she takes away as well. The ancients had no doubts of this derivation, and τὸ φέρον (fate) and τὸ φερόμενον (chance) seem to substantiate it. But the old divine character of _Fors_, _Fortuna_ (as related to Harit), points to other sources, which had already entirely vanished from the consciousness of the ancients. Yet the expression, _es trägt sich zu_ (it happens), the old _gaburjan_, Anglo-Saxon _gebyrian_, and _kipuri_ (_zufällig_, casual), must be taken into account, and forms such as _forte_, _forsan_, _fortassis_ (_forte an si vis_), _fortuitus_, are very remote from their supposed mythological meaning. If _ferre_ were the root, we should have further proof of the immeasurable fertility to which we owe such words as _fortune_ and _misfortune_.