ka-ra · W222

kara · deliberate force; combat; martial action; warfare · ✅

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Domain	military / conflict / narrative
Class	process / action
Type	compound
Register	standard
First use	AOW-001-B (S703): ka-ra ne go-si ki

Composition

ka (deliberate action / intentionality) + ra (force/energy). Head-final: ra (force) is head; ka specifies the force as deliberate and intentional rather than natural or incidental. 2-root compound.

Definition

deliberate application of force; combat; martial action; warfare as an activity. The intersection of intentional action (ka) and energy/force (ra): an agent's deliberate direction of force against another. Distinct from ra-ki (W038: storm — non-volitional force-in-motion) by the ka modifier: ka-ra is always willed, targeted, and agentive.

Notes

First attestation AOW-001 (S703). Core vocabulary for the Art of War stress test. Distinct from ra alone (raw force, non-volitional), ra-ki (W038, storm/force-in-motion), and ka alone (deliberate action without force specification). a-ka-ra (a-prefix + ka-ra) = universal-scoped warfare, all instances of warfare, used as topic NP in S702. The ne go-si ka-ra construction (not-by-means-of-combat) appears in S704 as a manner complement.

Related

ka (deliberate action), ra (force/energy), ra-ki (W038: storm), de-ra (defeat — compositional: force-decrease), be-ra (victory — compositional: force-increase), de-li (W223: adversary)

In the corpus

4 attestations.

S#	Tonesu
S464	de lo-no-ko-ra / ka-ra lo-de-no-fe : ne to-si Hamlet III.i — "To suffer... or to take arms against a sea of troubles"
S703	ka-ra ne go-si ki Warfare operates through speed.
S704	ra-no-fe : la-de-li ne de-ra no go-si ka-ra As for supreme excellence: the adversary is in a state of defeat, not via combat.
S706	go {la-mi to-su lo-mi ; no la-mi to-su lo-de-li}, ka-ra ne be-ra / ka-ra ne de-ra If I know myself but not the adversary: combat is [sometimes] victory / [sometimes] defeat.
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