Etymology

Zaum

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Today it means: Linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation, associated with futurist poets of the Russian Empire. Full definition →

Russian за́умь
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromза́умь
  2. English todayZaum

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

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