English words from Sumerian
- galaCelebratory; festive.
- nannagrandmother
- ApsuFresh water from underground aquifers that was given a religious quality.
- EnkiA god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.
- InannaA Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, known by the Akkadians as Ishtar and later identified with Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus.
- NergalA deity worshipped throughout ancient Mesopotamia, associated with war, pestilence, and the Sun.
- EblaOne of the earliest kingdoms in modern-day Syria, founded in the 4th millennium BC and abandoned by the 7th century AD.
- AnzuA divine storm-bird in several Mesopotamian religions.
- kungaA kind of equid in ancient Mesopotamia (probably a donkey-onager cross).
- ensiA Sumerian title designating the ruler or prince of a city state.
- LagashAn ancient city in Sumer, in contemporary southeast Iraq.
- dingirAny Sumerian deity.
- edubbaA Sumerian 'house of tablets', a place of learning where archives and literature were stored on clay tablets. A school and repository of knowledge.
- EmegirThe standard variety of the Sumerian language.
- EmesalA variety or sociolect of the Sumerian language, used exclusively by female characters in some literary texts.
- EnheduannaA priestess of the moon deity Nanna and the first named author.
- lugalA ruler of a city state in ancient Sumer.
- MeluhhaPossibly the Indus Valley Civilization; a civilization located east of Mesopotamia.
- NinhursagThe Sumerian earth and mother goddess, one of the seven great deities of Sumer.
- NisabaThe Sumerian goddess of writing, learning, and the harvest.
- ShuruppakA former city in Sumer