English words from Sumerian
- urExpressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.
- nanaA banana.
- MardukA late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon.
- KurA mountain or mountains, usually identified as the Zagros mountains to the east of Sumer.
- utuCompensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment; (loosely), payback, revenge.
- EnkiduCompanion of Gilgamesh in the poem Epic of Gilgamesh from ancient Mesopotamia.
- TammuzThe tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Sivan and before Av.
- EnlilA chief deity listed and written about in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets; the god of breath, wind, loft, and breadth.
- UgariticOf or pertaining to the ancient city of Ugarit.
- EreshkigalThe goddess of the underworld.
- GutianA member of the Guti people.
- NinurtaA Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war
- nunuz stoneA type of ancient Sumerian carved oval or ovoid ornamental stone.
- SarpanitA mother goddess and the consort of the chief Babylonian god, Marduk.
- SubarianA person belonging to the ancient culture of Subartu.