Reconstruction:Proto-Hmong-Mien/qluwˣ

Alternative reconstructions
Ostapirat (2016) reconstructs *kl- as the initial.

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬. Possibly related to 🇨🇬. Old Chinese borrowed 狗 from a language that was ancestral to Hmong-Mien.

Descendants

 * West Hmongic (Chuanqiandian)
 * Hmong
 * RPA:
 * Shua:
 * Hmuic
 * Hmu
 * Northern:
 * Hmu
 * Northern: