The article provides a comparative-typological analysis of linguoculturemes in Uzbek and English riddles. It identifies culturally marked units connected with clothing, food, household objects, nature, tools, numbers and colors and explains their role in encoding the hidden referent. The findings show that common cognitive models are realized through nationally specific lexical material. Therefore, riddles preserve cultural memory while functioning as compact poetic and intellectual texts.
English
Uzbek
comparative typology.
cultural semantics
folklore
linguocultureme
metaphor