Author: Rasulova, Fazilat

Annotation: We know that language, which is a social phenomenom and a means of communication, is constantly changing. These changes are evident in the lexical layer of the language. Lexicology is a branch of linguistics that studies the richness of each lexical layer, its own and its own set of words and phrases in a language are called lexicons, and they make uo.p the vocabulary of a language. Samples of folklore also contain a network of vocabularies called everyday vocabulary. Household vocabulary is the main source of expression of people’s social life, customs, language identity. It is in the folklore, including the text of folk epics, that there are many examples of everyday lexicon. The lexical layer in these epics reflects not only the literary language, but also the features of the literary language of that period, as well as cultural aand political relations with other peoples and their way of life. The article provides a lexical-semantic analysis of the language of the Uzbek people, including the content of the hat in the epic “Ravshan”. The etymology and historical forms of units mentioned in the text of the epic are also discussed in detall.

Keywords: vocabulary, folklore, language, dictionary, epic poem, hat, research, etymology, language unit