Type 1: Typical compound Nouns – STRESS ON FIRST WORD
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Introduction
Two examples of compound nouns composed of Adverb or Preposition + Noun are overtime and underpants. Notice that the first words here, "over" and "under" are not nouns but the second words, "time" and "pants" are nouns. "Over" and "under" are adverbs or prepositions.
Several examples of these have been mixed into the Type 1 lists on pages 1 to 7 in order to show that they belong to "sets" or groups of the same or similar thing. For example, "overtime" is a type of time, just as "lunchtime" is a type of town. (Similarly, "supermarket" was included in the Type 1 group, even though "super" is an adjective.)
The stress pattern of these is another example of the general rule: "When two words are joined together in writing, i.e., written as one word, to form a noun, no matter what type of word the first word is (whether a noun, adjective, adverb, preposition or verb), the first word is spoken with more stress than the second word."
[Note that this applies only when two words are combined to form a noun. Verbs that are formed in this way generally have the stress on the second word, such as "to overtax" and "to overthrow".]
The group of compound nouns composed of adverb or preposition + noun is not very large. Below are the ones I have found.