Метою статті є визначення ролі Словаря української мови за ред. Б. Д. Грінченка в дослідженні напрямків розвитку сільськогосподарської лексики українських східнослобожанських говірок.
The article analyzes role and importance of lexicographical works, including Ukrainian Language Dictionary ed. by B. Hryinchenko, in the study of dynamic processes in agricultural vocabulary of Ukrainian East-Slobozhan dialects. Language shift s’ analysis of verbal structure of representative repertoire of vocabulary defi ned thematic group traced on two chronological periods. Its time frame defi ned as approximately one hundred years — the end of XIX century — beginning of XX century, because language changes most defi nitely can be detected for a considerable time interval. Th is allows showing the dynamics in lexical system and establishes main directions of Ukrainian East-Slobozhan dialects’ development in general.