There seems to be force in the suggestion that the two Latin words, _porta_ and _porto_, like the Greek _poros_, were derived from the common Aryan root _par_ or _por_, “to go,” “to bring over,” “to pass through.”[701] However this may be, we have the common English use of the term “port” in words meaning a door or entrance, and again a carrying or a place of carriage, as “export,” “import,” “transport,” “portico,” “porthole,” “portfolio,” etc. An illustration of the twofold use of the word is found in the word “a portage” or “a carry” as the designation of “a break in a chain of water communication over which goods, boats, etc., have to be carried, as from one lake or river to another.” It is not merely that this is a place where a canoe, or other luggage, must be carried, but it is the definite “carry” or “portage,” the bridge, or isthmus, or door, or threshold,[702] by which they enter another region. This is the common American use of the term in pioneer life.[703] ----- Footnote 697: A primitive wedding ceremony. See pp. 39–42, 142 f., 212, _supra_. Footnote 698: See, again, pp. 16 f., 46 f., _supra_. Footnote 699: See _Plutarch’s Lives_, “Romulus;” also references to Strabo, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in Hooke’s _Roman History_, I., 42. Footnote 700: See references at pp. 39, 263, _supra_. Footnote 701: See Skeat’s _Etymological Dictionary_ and the _Century Dictionary_, s. v. Footnote 702: See p. 180 f., _supra_. Footnote 703: See “portage” in _The Century Dictionary_, with examples of usage. ----- PASSING OVER INTO A COVENANT. As these pages are going to press, Dr. Sailer calls my attention to the phrase לעבר בברית _laʿabhor bibereeth_, to enter, or pass over, into a covenant. This phrase, as Dr. Driver[704] points out, is found only in one place, at Deuteronomy 29 : 12. “That thou shouldest enter [or pass] into the covenant of the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day.” It is evident that here is the idea of passing over a line or boundary, or threshold limit, into another region, or state or condition. Until that threshold is crossed, the person is outside of the covenant with its privileges and benefits; but when it is crossed, or passed, the person is a partaker of all that is within.