Definitions for Sumerian

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Sumerian Su·me·ri·an

Spelling: [soo-meer-ee-uh n, -mer-]

IPA: /suˈmɪər i ən, -ˈmɛr-/

Sumerian is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 492 anagrams from letters in Sumerian (aeimnrsu).

Definitions for Sumerian

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Sumer.
2. 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.

adjective

1. of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.

Origin of Sumerian

First recorded in 1870-75; Sumer + -ian

Examples for Sumerian

In Sumerian culture, beer is referenced on the earliest recovered tablet.

If we were using the Sumerian script today we would make an look like .

The name Eve is derived from a Sumerian pun on the word for rib.

There is as yet no evidence that the Canaanites were of the Sumerian stock.

We fortunately possess an instructive Sumerian parallel to our passage.

According to our Sumerian text he reigned in Erech for a hundred years.

For we have now recovered some of those originals, and they are not Semitic but Sumerian.

Changes in the manner of reading the Sumerian names are frequent.

In Sumerian, wine was called ges-din, "the draught of life."

The name Easter may, or may not, be derived from the Sumerian goddess Inanna, or Ishtar—the source of the Hebrew name Esther.