Coined by a Russian Futurist, probably Aleksei Kruchonykh, to indicate language that was indefinite or indeterminate in meaning (and phonetically translated as zaum‘, to indicate the palatalized m’), this term literally means something beyond or outside of reason or intelligibility
; common English translations are transrational,
trans-sense,
or beyond-sense
language. The idea of writing poetry in invented words was suggested to Kruchonykh by David Burliuk (1882–1967) in December 1912. By March 1913,...
