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It can be traced back to the ancient multi-element Finno-Ugric (Uralic) *-kt, the elements of which are the frequentative *-k and the causative -t.
In Hungarian, regular phonological development caused this *-kt to first become -χt, then -it. The -i formed a diphthong with the vowel at the end of the stem in front of it, which is the origin of the -ajt / -ejt variants that still exists today in some old or dialect words (e.g. hullajt, veszejt). The diphthong then monophthongized to become -í, resulting in the modern colloquial -ít formant. When added to base verbs, this is most often found as a causative suffix, but it usually no longer expresses real causation, it merely changes the base verb to a transitive. For causation, it must be supplemented with the suffix -tat / -tet, as in taníttat(“to have someone taught”).[1]