arị,
i with high tone ( fish hook) .... arị, i with low tone ( witchcraft)
barị (make lukewarm, revoke) ... darị ( to boil)
bịla , i with high tone (frequent stooling) …
bịla, i with low tone
(elephant)
bịbị fịrịma ( to send word across) .... bịbị ofịrịma
( to hasten
speech)
buruma (a kind of ornamental dye) .... bụrụma (make dirty, untidy)
fọnya (quick!) .... fọnyị ( confiscate)
fẹngụ ( rainy season) ... fingi
( hydrocele)
gulugulu ( wasted) .... gulogulo ( of stew, soup too watery)
gbasị ( equality) .... gbasa ( a kind of masquerade)
gbụsụnụ ( given well deserved
support) .... gbisini ( dislocation)
ikia (friendship) .... ịkịan ( wonder, prophesy)
iboli (bow) .... ịbọlị ( mud cat fish)
ịkolị (sea crab) ....
ikoli ( chain, jail)
kasa (fish rack) .... kịsị ( very very small)
obu ( sharpness of knife, cutlass,
etc) .... obu ( dumbness)
ọdụ ( stew) ... odu ( general body odour, foul odour)
ọkọ ( to hire) ... ọkọ ( it is so) … ọkọ ( throwing
up as by a baby)
ọwụ ( heat) ... owu (cry)
ọgụ (hoe) .... ọgụ ( the vegetable, fluted pumpkin)
