Vocabulary of food in the folk tales of the Mansi

Semantic layers of everyday vocabulary cover many aspects of human existence. All life realities are reflected in the oral folk art, including the vocabulary of food. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that this theme in Mansi philology is insufficiently studied. The vocabulary of food in the Mansi fairy-tale texts is considered for the first time. The objective of the work is to identify and classify the food vocabulary, reflected in the texts of the folk tales, by lexical and semantic groups. The research used the lexico-semantic analysis and the method of observation as well as the linguistic and cultural approach. The author identified the following lexical and semantic groups: products ‘ehlmkholasn yuv-tehne hkhurip utyt’, food production, food production (hunting and fishing) ‘rupatal katn pattyn tehnut (vorayan os khul alyss'lan var-mal')’, the names of household utensils, tableware related to food ‘tehnut syopitan kolkivyr pormasyt’, cooking methods ‘tehnut syopitaneh varmal'’.