Any two languages will have some words of the same meaning that look alike, but this will be coincidence. Your linked article is utter pseudoscience. Modern Ma

Any two languages will have some words of the same meaning that look alike, but this will be coincidence. Your linked article is utter pseudoscience. Modern Mandarin is an artifact of the last millennium, Middle Chinese looked completely different. Similarly, Maori is known to go back to a Polynesian proto-language that also looked different. So, in neither language was the word "hui" just a few centuries ago. Also, the two words are not actually pronounced alike.