Laurent Sagart
The most notable examples are the word for person in some Wu varieties as *"nong", usually written as in Chinese, and the word for "wet" in many Wu and Min dialects with a /t/ initial which is clearly in no way related to the Chinese word but cognate with Vietnamese . Min languages notably retain the bilabial nasal coda for this word. However, Laurent Sagart (2008) shows that the Min words for "wet", "duckweed", "(small) salted fish", which seem to be cognates with Vietnamese , , , are either East Asian areal words if not Chinese words in disguise ('duckweed', 'wet'), and long shots ('salted fish').