Promising Directions for Continuing the Study of N. Witsen’s List of Mordovian Words

The article theses the promising directions of continuing the research of N. Witsen's “List of Mordovian Words”, published by him in 1692. The following directions were chosen: the circumstances of collecting materials for the source; the place of collecting materials for the source; the ethnolanguage definition of informants; the method of collecting materials from the source; the semantics of some Mordovian lexemes in the second half of the XVII century and its significance for modern Mordovian lexicology. The author's own field materials are also used