Leniting prepositions and compound nouns

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Leniting prepositions and compound nouns

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When a close-compound noun like muilinn-gaoithe is preceded by a leniting preposiion like "do", which bit gets lenited - muilinn or gaoithe? I'm guessing muilinn because I've just seen "na bhall-parlamaid" in respect of a male member of parliament.

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Do you have a copy of Blas?
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Err - yes.... he replies hesitantly. Is this going to get complicated, he wonders?
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/me chuckles

Page 182, Chapter 4.5.1 Single Lenition and Jumping Lenition, compounds behave like noun + adj
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Ahha. Tapadh leat. B' urrainn dha a bhith nas miosa!....
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...na bu mhiosa ;)

'S urrainn ... nas miosa
B' urrainn ... na bu mhiosa
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