kꜣ

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: ka

 m

1. ka (Something like "life-force"; the part of the soul which the living have and the dead do not)
   • c. 24th century BCE, Pyramid of King Unas, south wall of the burial chamber, column 15, Pyramid Text spell 215, section 35:^[2]

     nj sk.k nj sk kꜣ.k ṯwt kꜣ

     You will not perish; your ka will not perish. You are the ka.

   • Early 6th Dynasty, Tomb of Nyankhnesut, Relief of Agricultural Scenes (Cleveland 1930.736), middle register, captions around flute-player:^[3]

     zb(ꜣ) nfr n k(ꜣ)w.ṯn

     Playing the flute is good for your kas.

   1. personality, essence
2. goodwill - especially of the king

• → English: ka

 m

1. a serekh name notably borne by Predynastic king Ka

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: ka

 m

1. sustenance, food

From kꜣj (“to plan”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: ka

 proclitic

1. (with following subjunctive or nonverbal predicate) so, then, as a result; expresses future consequence
2. (with following suffix pronoun/subject and imperfective) then; expresses subsequent action

This particle is mostly used with the subjunctive to indicate future consequences. In this use, it is neutral in tone — it neither indicates inevitability (like ḫr) nor optativity (like jḫ).

• .kꜣ

 quotative

1. (with following suffix pronoun indicating the speaker) marks a future direct quotation; will say

Like the other quotatives jn, ḫr, and ḫrw.fj, this word either follows the entire quotation that it marks or is inserted near its start (but never at its start).

This word may be identical with the above proclitic particle. It may also be interpreted as a use of .kꜣ in the potentialis form ḏd.kꜣ with the verb ḏd (“to say”) left unexpressed.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: ka

 m

1. bull
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 144–146:

     
     

     zft.j n.k kꜣw m zj n sḏt wšn.n.j n.k ꜣpdw

     I will slaughter bulls for you as a burnt offering, having wrung the necks of birds for you.

• mdw-kꜣ-ḥḏ
• kꜣ-nḫt-ḫꜥ-m-wꜣst
• kꜣt

• Coptic Dialect K: ⲕⲟ (ko)

 m

1. bull as a sacrificial victim

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 85.6–86.6, 86.10–89.11, 91.3–91.13, 94.7–96.8, 97.1–98.2
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 82, 115, 127, 196, 254, 274, 284, 319–320.