אמת
'truth'
עמעס

ETYMOLOGY

Vowel 21, Proto-Yiddish ✱ɛ
Tiberian Hebrew ʔɛ̆mɛ́θ

WESTERN

Emits 'Gewissen' {PhilogLottus 1733}
- auf deih emits 'Auf dein dein Gewissen {sic}'

Emmes {Sprach-Meister 1742}

Emess 'Wahr, die Wahrheit' {Friedrich 1784: 19}

ɛ́məs {NORTHWESTERN, Katz 1982: 116, 143, 225}
- ɛmɛ́s {Whole Hebrew}

Holland (Netherlands)

Emmes, nemmes (= in emmes) {HOLLAND, Beem, Jerosche}
- Emmes is de beste scheiker. {Jerosche №190}
Bernst. 16 - Der Emes is der gresster schwindel.
- E halber emmes is e ganzer schkorem. '(Pl. schkorem in place of original scheiker)' {Jerosche №191}
Philo 157 - A halber Emess ist a ganzer Liegen.
Bernst. 16.

Alsace (France)

ɛməs 'true' {ALSACE, Zuckerman 1969, 42}

Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)

ęməs {WTCP, Budapest, Hutterer 1965: 123, 134}

CENTRAL

ɛ́məs {Katz 1982: 116, 143, 225}
- ɛmɛ́s {Whole Hebrew}

Unterland (East Transcarpathian)

er niːst ɔfɱ ɛməs {ער ניסט אויפֿן עמעס} {ETCP, Nyzhnya Apsha, 48233}

{ɛmᵻs} {Warsaw, Geller 2001: 71}
- ᵻn pã, ɛmɛsn zugiɲ אין פּײַן, אמתן זאָגן {p. 209}
cɩm emɩs צום אמת (when somebody sneezes) {POLAND, Warsaw, 52211}

HASIDIC

AMERICA

ˈɛməs

NORTHEASTERN

ɛ́məs {Katz 1982: 116, 225}
- ɛmɛs {Whole Hebrew}

VIDEO Menachem Mendel Schneersohn {Nikolaev/Mykolaiv, Yekatrinislav/Dnipropetrovsk, UKRAINE} 1981
ˈɛmɛs
און מע ברענגט עס מיט אַן אמת אַז דער אייבערשטער העלפֿט אים

SOUTHEASTERN

ofɳ æməs גענאָסן אויפֿן אמת {ROMANIA, Brăila, 45273}