What does ぞな mean here?


<https://i.stack.imgur.com/yQU9l.jpg> What does the ぞな mean here? I thought it
could be a masculine emohasis. But it's also used with な.




This is a prototypical [_Iyo_
dialect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iyo_dialect) populaized by Soseki's
[bestselling novel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botchan), to the point that
it's disproportionately well known to Japanese people compared to the
population who actually speak the dialect, which is dying.

I don't think Kiyohiko Azuma, the writer, specifically set an Iyo (Ehime)
background for this old lady. (He is not known for doing that kind of detailed
research.) My guess is he simply found the sound of the dialect interesting
and wanted to create an exotic atmosphere by having the lady speak it.

Online sources suggest that ぞなもし breaks down into ぞ + な + もし where もし is
probably synonymous with 申し (as in 申します). In any case, the local Iyo people
are known to add this word to the end of sentences to mean "isn't it?" or
"don't you think?".

