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{ "etymology_text": "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.\nIn 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”).", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "hu", "2": "suffix" }, "expansion": "-ít", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Hungarian", "lang_code": "hu", "pos": "suffix", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Hungarian entries with incorrect language header", "Hungarian lemmas", "Hungarian suffixes", "Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation", "Pages using catfix", "Pages with 2 entries", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "text": "alap (“base”) + -ít → alapít (“to found”)", "type": "example" }, { "text": "szép (“beautiful”) + -ít → szépít (“to make more beautiful”)", "type": "example" }, { "text": "áll (“to stand”) + -ít → állít (“to assert, claim”)", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "-ify, added to a noun, adjective, verb or other stem to form a verb expressing causation (make something ...-like)." ], "links": [ [ "-ify", "-ify" ], [ "noun", "noun" ], [ "adjective", "adjective" ], [ "verb", "verb" ], [ "make", "make" ], [ "-like", "-like" ] ], "qualifier": "verb-forming suffix", "raw_glosses": [ "(verb-forming suffix) -ify, added to a noun, adjective, verb or other stem to form a verb expressing causation (make something ...-like)." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "-at/-et" }, { "word": "-tat/-tet" }, { "word": "-aszt/-eszt/-öszt" }, { "word": "-jt/-ajt/-ejt" }, { "word": "-dít" }, { "raw_tags": [ "in this sense" ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ], "word": "-t" } ], "tags": [ "morpheme" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "[iːt]" } ], "word": "-ít" }
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