Sumerian
[soo-meer-ee-uh n, -mer-]
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adjective
of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
noun
a native or inhabitant of Sumer.
a language of unknown affinities that was the language of the Sumerians and had, in the late 4th and 3rd millenniums b.c., a well-developed literature that is preserved in pictographic and cuneiform writing and represents the world's oldest extant written documents.
Origin of Sumerian
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Contemporary Examples of sumerian
The name Easter may, or may not, be derived from the Sumerian goddess Inanna, or Ishtar—the source of the Hebrew name Esther.
In Sumerian culture, beer is referenced on the earliest recovered tablet.
The name Eve is derived from a Sumerian pun on the word for rib.
Historical Examples of sumerian
According to our Sumerian text he reigned in Erech for a hundred years.
Legends Of Babylon And EgyptLeonard W. King
We fortunately possess an instructive Sumerian parallel to our passage.
Legends Of Babylon And EgyptLeonard W. King
For we have now recovered some of those originals, and they are not Semitic but Sumerian.
Legends Of Babylon And EgyptLeonard W. King
Changes in the manner of reading the Sumerian names are frequent.
There is as yet no evidence that the Canaanites were of the Sumerian stock.
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