Lus a' chrom-chinn: stress?

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Lus a' chrom-chinn: stress?

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Does one say lus a' CHROM-chinn or lus a' chrom-CHINN?


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If there’s a hyphen, that indicates the stress shifts to the second word.

http://www.akerbeltz.org/index.php?titl ... ound_nouns

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Slow down :priob: crom + cinn is not a compound noun, it's a noun with a prefixed adjective (like deagh-cheann) and those usually have equal stress or stress on the adjective i.e. /Lus ə 'xrɔumçiNʲ/ with stress on CHROM
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:mc: :mhoire:
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Mòran taing! (good to know there's a rule of thumb too)
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