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The chapter represents the results of the analysis of the Teleut language vocabulary, verbalizing pragmatically significant frames “hunting” and “food” from cognitive positions. The authors pay attention to the description of a horse image based on Teleut and Russian proverbs in order to identify its national and cultural conditionality. The sources of study are dictionaries, audio and video materials of conversations with Teleuts, living in the villages of the Kemerovo region. Reference to lexicographical works and application of the method of propositional frame-based modeling allow the authors, first, to identify and describe peculiarities of the linguistic realization of associatively linked frames “hunting,” “food,” and considerations about a horse; second, to reveal the system of archaic perception of the world fragments by Teleuts and to show its significance for preservation of viability of their genetically native language; third, to set the directions of further work for the preservation of the original national Teleut culture.