Infinitive form?
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Oct 29 04:23:51 UTC 2000
> >
>> >I was just wondering ... if there is an infinitive verb form for
>> >"transition"--besides 'to make a transition.' What seems most obvious is
>> >'to transit'--but I don't think that's it! Can anyone help?
>>
> > There is the intransitive verb "transition" = "make a transition".
Well, I have heard, and on occasion perhaps even used, "to transish"
[traen'zIsh].
It's pretty informal, though. :)
L
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