[Avodah] Pronunciation of Emet

[Allan Engel]

Why, alone among segolate nouns, is Emet pronounced mil'ra?

The obvious answer is that the vowel on the alef is a chataph-segol, which
cannot be stressed, but this just changes the question to 'why is there a
chataph-segol on the aleph'?
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