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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