This is what I know.

1) Unlike, say, -p, the final -t of Chinese readings was maintained in careful
speech at least as long as the Christian resources of the XVIth century
(Frellesvig 2010: 316-7). At least for some, there is a confirmed
orthographical confirmation that there was no borrowing with epenthetic vowel.

2) Most of these occur in words that, according to actual spelling, are hidden
in kanji, making any kind of ‘tradition’ improbable.

3) The overwhelming majority of those that survivd to modern jōyō list now
close it with -ツ.

4) To the moment when the vowel was needed, there was no hearable Middle
Chinese to check any feature of readings.

Question: why were some of the syllables fixed in -チ-readings? These are the
ones officially declared:

  * セチ 節 ‘node’ (Go-on)
  * ニチ 日 ‘day’ (Go-on)
  * バチ 罰 ‘punish’ (Kan’yō-on, for non-Jōyō ぼち)
  * リチ 律 ‘law’ (Go-on)
  * イチ 一 ‘one’, 壱 ‘judicial one’ (Go-on)
  * キチ 吉 ‘good luck’ (Go-on)
  * シチ 七 ‘seven’, 質 ‘content’ (also チ、Go-on)
  * ハチ 八 ‘eight’, 鉢 ‘bowl’ (Go-on)

Most of these are 1) unique or occurring at most twice; 2) an astounding
number are numerals. What is going on in the assigning of Go-on readings?
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How did the on-readings with -チ appear?
As you quoted already チ is the sign of Go-on (呉音). Except 罰 is 慣用音 (which
means the conventional pronunciation)

Many websites suggest チ came from Go-on while ツ came from Kan-on (漢音). (see
<https://www.goodcross.com/words/19848-2019> for example)

Basically Go-on is older than Kan-on, which might explain why many numerals
are Go-on.

I am not sure of what your 1) means. At least Go-on is the sounds used in
South China way before 15th century and they were delivered to Japan through
Korean emigrants. Hence the difference.
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