What's the Difference Between a Noun Verb and a Verbal Noun?

compound verbs where noun verb compounds occur noun and then followed by a verb of some sort are pretty common in Menya. Such that the word for hand combined with cut, toe means to count whereas with to act, a cut means to hold. In Menya, there are three degrees of past tense but it only occurs on finite verb forms. On page 90 we have these interesting polarity prefixes. So, you could have a positive statement or a negative statement. I go to the store, I don't going to the store. There's a whole bunch of verb moons.