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Reconstruction:Proto-Hmong-Mien/qluwˣ

This Proto-Hmong-Mien entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Hmong-Mien

Alternative reconstructions

Ostapirat (2016)[1] reconstructs *kl- as the initial.

Etymology

Cognate with Chinese 狗 (OC *koːʔ). Possibly related to Proto-Austronesian *(u-)(ŋ)kuɣkuɣ (“dog”). Old Chinese borrowed 狗 from a language that was ancestral to Hmong-Mien (Norman, 1988; Benedict, 1996).

Noun

*qluwˣ

  1. dog

Descendants
  • Proto-Hmong: *qlæᴮ
    • West Hmongic (Chuanqiandian)
    • Hmuic
      • Hmu
        • Northern: dlad
  • Proto-Mien:
  • →? Chinese: 狗 (OC *koːʔ)

References
  1. Ostapirat, Weera (2016) “Issues in the Reconstruction and Affiliation of Proto-Miao-Yao”, in Language and Linguistics‎, volume 17, number 1, →DOI, pages 133–145
  • Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 104.
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