Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/ferō

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to carry, bear

Inflection
Since the paradigm lacked a perfect, a periphrastic perfect was supplied by using the perfect of other verbs. Different languages chose different verbs: Latin used the perfect of, while Umbrian used the perfect of. Although this verb is normally thematic, in Latin some forms of this verb lost the thematic vowel, as in present forms ferō, fers, fert, ferimus, fertis, ferunt, and the infinitive ferre compared to Proto-Italic *ferō, *feres, *feret, *feromos, *feretis, *feront, and *ferezi (note -i- in ferimus is kept). This loss of thematic vowels in the Latin present forms is usually attributed to a syncope process, and not a transfer to an athematic conjugation.

In Latin, the original past participle was ousted in its verbal function by this verb as well, and again displaced by the forms of *tolnō.