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The article purpose is to give the structural and semantic analysis of handicraft lexicon of Ossetic. Special attention is paid to the industry terminology related with processing and making of leather and furs, and manufacturing different kind of items and products of these materials. Degree of significance of the series of words that relates to the leather and furriery handicrafts is set here, the terminologization methods and processes of handicraft lexis are also determined, and its place in the total vocabulary of the Ossetic is identified and proved. The linguistic and cultural characteristics of words groups are denotes here, it can facilitate the identification and explanation of how are made the individualizing and identifying features of handicraft term, which is a keeper and a broadcaster of the national culture. The ranking of lexical and semantical subgroups was made in view of the following criteria: work steps of Ossetian leather and furrier crafts, applied tools and instruments, kinds and types of maketh hides. The lexicon and terminology of tagged crafts unifying in one group "Leather and Furriery Terminology of Ossetic" is due to the fact that they are rather closely linked, and anyway, intertwined with each other. The study of handicraft lexis and terminology in the interdisciplinary aspect will help to make a more profound analysis; will reveal its functions and features in ethnocultural context.

Keywords: Ossetic, special lexis, handicraft terminology, semantics, ethnographism, leatherworking.

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