If you're really having a hard time with it, I guess the best thing for me to do is use a more exact language than English. I think the musical language Solresol best captures the essence of this question. I'm attaching a whistled version of the word which I hope clarifies the topic. Here is also a link to the Wikipedia article on Solresol if you need to learn the language really quickly.
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