Are there any English words with Sumerian origin?

It seems very unlikely. English is Indo-European. Sumerian is a language isolate. They were not near each other and are not related. And the time-spans are too great as well. read more

Then the word could be borrowed into Enlgish. An example of borrowing from Arabic via Spanish is the word “adobe”. But adobe itself probably moved into Arabic from Coptic and older Egyptian languages before that. I don’t know of any Spanish words from Akkadian or Sumerian that moved into English. read more

According to the ancient texts, each Sumerian city was guarded by its own god; and while humans and gods used to live together, the humans were servants to the gods. The Sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in approximately 5000 BC. read more