Zaum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation, associated with futurist poets of the Russian Empire.

Word forms

Zaum

Etymology

From Russian за́умь (záumʹ, literally “nonsense”).

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