底儂

Peng'im: di6 nang5
POJ: tǐ-nâng
Variety: chaozhou

The tone on 底 is uncertain. By Middle Chinese it is 陰上 (端母 上聲), which predicts tone 2, so neither 6 nor 7 is regular — this is an irregular grammaticalised interrogative. The id also records 儂 as `diang5` against the reading's `nang5`; both need confirming. `diang5` is plausibly not a reading of 儂 at all but the fused monosyllabic form of the whole word — 底人 regularly fuses across Southern Min (cf. Hokkien tiâng < tī-lâng). If so it is an alternative reading of 底儂 rather than of its second syllable. It is deliberately not recorded as a second reading, which would assert an unconfirmed form.