The core colors.

• ọchawhite (also 'clean/light')
• ojiiblack (also 'dark')
• uhiered
• odo odoyellow (reduplicated form commonly used)
• akwụkwọ ndụgreen (lit. 'fresh/living leaf')
• anụnụblue
• aja ajabrown (lit. 'sand/earth coloured')
• ntụ ntụgrey (lit. 'ash coloured')
• pinkịpink (borrowed from English)
• oromaorange (the colour; from the fruit 'oroma')
• papụlpurple (borrowed from English; no native single term)
• agbacolour (the general word for 'colour')