One question asks: What does «نخ» do? It functions as a call to an animal.
A second asks: How is it used in a sentence? If quoted after a verb of saying, the whole utterance can occupy a reported-speech position.
Keep meaning, fixed form and syntactic position distinct.
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Al-Aṣwāt — Sound-words, Their Two Uses and Grammatical Analysis
One question asks: What does «نخ» do? It functions as a call to an animal.
A second asks: How is it used in a sentence? If quoted after a verb of saying, the whole utterance can occupy a reported-speech position.
Keep meaning, fixed form and syntactic position distinct.