The Semantic Field of Equestrian Lexical Units in English And Uzbek Languages

This study investigates the semantic structure and cultural underpinnings of equestrian lexical units in English and Uzbek. Drawing on corpus data (150 million English words; 40 million Uzbek words), specialised glossaries and ethnographic commentary, it identifies central and peripheral members of the semantic field that centres on the lexeme horse (ot). Componential, contextual-collocational and cognitive-onimic analyses reveal both universal and culture-specific patterns of lexical differentiation. English demonstrates fine-grained terminological density in breeding, conformation and competition, whereas Uzbek shows greater lexical granularity in ethno-equine practices such as kopkari, ceremonial processions and steppe horse husbandry. Despite typological distance, both languages share a tripartite core of basic zoological, functional and metaphorical meanings anchored in Indo-European and Altaic conceptual schemata of mobility, status and vitality. The results have implications for bilingual lexicography, translation studies and intercultural communication in veterinary and sport-management domains.