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Same spelling, different tones

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• èlèinterest; usury; surplus; a course of mud in building mud walls; iron; instruments made of iron; weapons; sword. the cry of "èlè" denotes "all to arms.
• ìrìniron; iron nail; metal; walk; moisture; a soaking; damp
• rọto wither (as a hand, limb); be scorched, blighted (as green leaves); weaken; slacken; cool the ardour; droop; tenacious; to manufacture instruments of iron (as the blacksmith)
• ẹfẹa snare; a gin; a trap of pointed iron suspended on a tree and set by a string; fault-finding; captiousness; humour; jest; joke; mockery; game; drollery
• pónto carry on the back (as a baby); to sharpen iron; whet; flatter; make much of; coax; ripen, become yellow, be red; mature
• ogúnarmy; war; battle; fight; fray; twenty; medicine; poison; spell; charm
• ikotipin of iron, bone,, wood used by women for combing and adjusting the hair
• porinto smelt iron
• yangired soft stone; sand stone; iron stone, laterite
• abọgúna worshipper of the god of iron and war
• aporina smelter of iron