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- ka (カ) - cord, thread, yarn; trap (possessed form kaha)
- ka (カ) - above, over, up
- kanna (カンナ) - upper
- kata (カタ) - atop, on top of, over, above (< ka + locative case marker -ta)
- kam (カㇺ) - meat, flesh (possessed form kami or kamihi)
- kampi (カンピ) - paper; a letter, a missive (cf. Japanese kami "paper" and tegami "a letter, a missive" < te "hand; handwriting" + kami "paper")
- kampi-sos (カンピソㇱ) - book (< Japanese kami "paper" + obsolete Sino-Japanese 冊子 *sakusi > *sausi > sōshi "book")
- kamtaci (カㇺタチ) - malt (cf. Japanese *kamutati > kōji "malt")
- kamtacisakpe (カㇺタチサㇰペ) - a witless person
- kamuy (カムィ) - god, deity, spirit; bear; used as an element in some descriptive, euphemistic, or honorific names of animals and in some words that describe persons who characteristically perform a certain action or behave in a certain manner (cf. Japanese *kamui > (Old Japanese) kamï > kami 'god')
- Kamuy-Kara-Puto-Ya-Mosir (カムィカラプトヤモシㇼ) - supposedly means "mouth of water"; refers to Karafuto, or the mouth of the Amur River
- Kamuy-Mosir (カムィモシㇼ) - "Land of the Gods"; heaven
- kamuy-nomi (カムィノミ) - to pray to the gods
- kani (カニ) - metal, iron (カネ kane in Saru and Chitose dialects; cf. Japanese kane "metal; money")
- konkani (コンカニ) - gold (コンカネ konkane in Saru and Chitose dialects; cf. obsolescent Japanese kogane "gold" < Old Japanese *kogane ~ *kugane)
- sirokani (シロカニ) - silver (シロカネ sirokane in Saru and Chitose dialects; cf. obsolescent Japanese shirogane "silver" < Old Japanese *sirokane)
- kanto (カント) - sky, heaven
- kap (カㇷ゚) - skin, fur, rind, peel, bark, outer covering of anything (possessed form kapu or kapuhu)
- kapkar (カㇷ゚カㇻ) - to skin, to peel, to remove the rind, to strip the bark
- kapap (カパㇷ゚) - bat (the flying mammal) (cf. Proto-Japanese *kapapori > Modern Japanese kōmori "bat")
- kapar (カパㇻ) - to be thin (as a flattish object)
- kapiw (カピゥ) - seagull
- kar (カㇻ) - to make, to prepare, to produce, to do; to peel (a rind); to put (a lid) on (a pot)
- karku (カㇻク) - nephew
- karus (カルㇱ) - mushroom
- katkemat (カッケマッ) - wife; lady, woman of means or high status
- kawkaw (カゥカゥ) - hail, sleet
- kay (カィ) - to break (a long object, such as a bone), to snap
- kem (ケㇺ) - blood
- kemnu (ケㇺヌ) - to bleed
- kemorit (ケモリッ) - a blood vessel; a vein or an artery (also kemrit ケㇺリッ)
- kemus (ケムㇱ) - bloody, covered in blood, having blood all over
- kem (ケㇺ) - shortage of food, famine, hunger, starvation
- kemekot (ケメコッ) - to starve to death, to die of hunger
- kemnoye (ケㇺノイェ) - to starve to death, to die of hunger
- kemus (ケムㇱ) - famished, starving; there is/was a famine
- kem (ケㇺ) - a needle
- kemeyki (ケメィキ) - to do needlework, to sew
- kema (ケマ) - leg
- ker (ケㇾ) - footwear, shoe, boot (explicitly possessed form ケリ keri)
- kera (ケラ) - taste, flavor
- kes (ケㇱ) - end (explicitly possessed form ケセ kese or ケセへ kesehe)
- kes- (ケㇱ) - every (day, year, etc.)
- ki (キ) - to do
- ki (キ) - louse (esp. head louse)
- urki (ウㇽキ) - louse
- tayki (タィキ) - flea
- kikir (キキㇼ) - bug, insect, worm
- kim (キㇺ) - mountain
- kimi (キミ) - maize (cf. Japanese Tōhoku and Oki dialects kimi "maize" < standard Japanese kibi "Proso millet")
- kina (キナ) - grass, herb, (edible or otherwise useful) plant; a kind of mat woven from dried bulrush leaves with decorative patterns executed in cotton cloth
- sikina (シキナ) - bulrush (< Ainu intensive or reflexive prefix si- "(one)self; true, real; good, fine" + kina)
- kira (キラ) - to run away, to flee, to escape
- kiraw (キラゥ) - horn, antler (explicitly possessed form kirawe キラウェ or kirawehe キラウェへ)
- kiray (キラィ) - comb
- kiror (キロㇿ) - strength, power, ability
- kirpu (キㇼプ) - fatty meat, the fatty part (of a fish's flesh, etc.); fat, lard (cf. Korean gireum "oil, fat, grease, lard, blubber, suet, tallow")
- kirpu'us (キㇼプウㇱ) - fatty, having plenty of fat on it
- kisar (キサㇻ) - ear
- kitay (キタィ) - top of anything; summit, peak (of a mountain); roof (of a house)
- kito (キト) - an alternative or dialectal name for pukusa (Allium victorialis subsp. platyphyllum)
- kokkasapa (コㇰカサパ) - knee, kneecap
- konci (コンチ) - hat; headscarf
- konru (コンル) - ice; hail; sleet
- kor (コㇿ) - to hold; to keep; to have
- koraci (コラチ) - like ~, as ~, in the manner of ~
- kore (コレ) - to give (probably from the causative form of Ainu kor "to hold; to have," i.e. *kor-de > kor-e "to cause to hold; to cause to have" > kore "to give")
- Korpokkur (コㇿポㇰクㇽ) - name of a traditional Ainu folktale
- kotan (コタン) - village, settlement; dwelling place
- Kamuy-Kotan (カムィコタン) - Kamuikotan, a scenic area located in the valley of the Ishikari River (literally, "dwelling place of (a/the) god")
- ku (ク) - bow
- ku (ク) - to drink; to smoke (tobacco, etc.)
- ku- (ク) - I, my (a prefix that is attached to a verbal stem in order to indicate a first person singular subject, or to a nominal stem in order to indicate a first person singular possessor)
- kuani (クアニ) - I (first person singular pronoun; also pronounced as カニ kani)
- kucan (クチャン) - a female bear
- kumi (クミ) - mold
- kumius (クミウㇱ) - moldy, rotten and covered in mold
- kunki (クンキ) - nail (cf. Japanese 釘 kugi)
- kunne (クンネ) - black; dark (probably < Ainu kur "shadow" + ne "to be, to become")
- kunnecup (クンネチュプ) - the Moon (literally, "Dark/Shadowy/Black Luminary")
- Kunashir (クナシㇼ) - Black (Is)land. Present day Kunashir Island.
- kupa (クパ) - to bite, to nibble
- kupapa (クパパ) - to bite, to bite and hold on with the teeth (cf. Japanese *kupape- > kuwae- "to hold in the mouth or between the teeth," *kup- > kuw- "to eat; to bite")
- kur (クㇽ) - shadow
- kur (クㇽ) - person (cf. Korpokkur, Kuril, and Nivkh kʰuγi "(exonym for the) Ainu")
- ku-kor kur (クコㇿ クㇽ) - my husband
- kut (クッ) - belt, girdle, waistband (explicitly possessed form クチ kuci or クチヒ kucihi)
- kuta (クタ) - to spill, to upset; to throw away
- Kutune Shirka (クト゚ネシㇼカ) - name of a sacred Ainu epic
- kuy (クィ) - to chew (also reduplicated to produce クィクィ kuykuy)
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