The work deals with the complex investigation of the lexico-semantic and word building peculiarities of the folk medicine and curative magic vocabulary and phraseology in the steppe and sociable dialects of the Dnipro-Buz'kiy interfluve that function on the present-day territory of Kirowohrad. The investigation level of the territory dialects was analyzed. The accent was made on the peculiarities of the investigated regional dialects functioning at the turn of the two south dialects: south-west and south-east. So, the Kirowohrad region embraces steppe, central Dnieper dialect of the south-east and south-west of Podil. Only the geographic vocabulary of this region was investigated fully. Opportunely, the local dialects fixed onomasts. The scientists' investigations devoted to the phonetic, morphological, word building phenomena of the separate Kirowohrad dialects are rare. Partly the local dialects were investigated using agricultural, beekeeping vocabulary, names of clothes, footwear, headgear, adornment, bread in the calendar ceremonies. The analyzed material falls into 36 lexico- semantic groups: "General names of diseases, process of endurance", "Names denoting disease recovery", "Names denoting skin diseases, injures, pathology", "Names denoting infectious diseases", "Names denoting respiratory tract diseases", "Names denoting digestion organs diseases", "Names denoting reproductive function", "Names denoting injuries in the result of the outside mechanical action on the human organism", "Names, denoting diseases and pathologic condition of musculoskeletal system", "Names denoting diseases that appeared as the result of metabolic disorder", "Names denoting the language, visual, aural defects", "Names denoting tooth, lip, gum diseases", "Names denoting blood, heart, vessel diseases", "Names denoting the neuropsychic diseases", "Names denoting drugs taking", "Names denoting alcohol abuse", "Names denoting children diseases", "Names connected with the action of hot drinks and high temperature on the human organism", "Names denoting sleep state", "Names of diseases, state, appearance connected with insufficient ingestion", "Names of diseases and person state connected with extra work activity", "Names denoting involuntary contraction", "Names connected with hypersensitization to certain substances", "Names connected with the action of low temperature on human body", "Names denoting with excessive lamentation", Names of diseases, state, appearance connected with insufficient ingestion", "Names denoting cancer", "Names denoting loss of consciousness", "Names denoting mental limitedness", "Names denoting diseases that characterize increased body temperature", "Names denoting the fright", "Names denoting temporary loss of motoricity", "Names denoting body trembling in the result of different reasons", "Names denoting head diseases", "Names denoting remedies", "Names connected with magic", "Names denoting death". The majority of identified lexico- semantic groups are divided into subgroups, the amount of which varies from two ("Names denoting body trembling as the result of different reasons") to seventy six ("Names denoting skin diseases"). In its turn, each subgroup unites from two to two hundred fourteen names. The analogies between the local and similar material in the literary language were drawn. The characteristic peculiarity of the analyzed group of words is absolute synonyms presence for many notions. Often in one settlement or even in the respondent's conversation several notions are used to denote the same phenomenon. Majority of the literary names, especially of foreign origin, have several phonetic, morphologic оr accentuation variants. The russisms, that are used parallel with Ukrainian equivalents are largely represented. Sporadic are bolgarizms, serbizms, rumunizms. Coexistence of Slavonic and non-Slavonic names denoting one disease, pathology are widely spread. Similar and dissimilar semantic meanings of the same units in the investigated dialects and of the other Ukrainian dialects are found in Transcarpathian, Precarpathian, Bukovynsky, Updniester, West Volyn, Polissya, Poltava, the lower Dnieper, the eastern steppe regions. Folk medicine and curative-magic vocabulary is analyzed as the scientific object; the structure of the lexico-semantic groups, the lexeme semantics, means of their creating were also examined. The nominational units activity and the productiveness of word building types were defined in the work.
