Sumerian words and phrases

thumb|250x250px|The dingir sign worshiped by two figures on a cylinder seal from [[Mitanni, 16th–14th century BC]] Dingir ⟨⟩, usually transliterated DIĜIR, () is a Sumerian word for 'god' or 'goddess'. Its cuneiform sign is most commonly employed as the determinative for religious names and related concepts, in which case it is not pronounced and is conventionally transliterated as a superscript ⟨d⟩, e.g.

A determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts which helps to disambiguate interpretation. They have no direct counterpart in spoken language, though they may derive historically from glyphs for real words, and functionally they resemble classifiers in East Asian and sign languages. For example, Egyptian hieroglyphic determinatives include symbols for divinities, people, parts of the body, animals, plants, and books/abstract ideas, which helped in reading but were not pronounced.

thumb| ama-gi4 written in Classical Sumerian|Classical [[Sumerian cuneiform]] Ama-gi is a Sumerian word written ama-gi4 or ama-ar-gi4. Sumerians used it to refer to release from obligations, debt, slavery, taxation, or punishment. Ama-gi has been regarded as the first known written reference to the concept of freedom, and has been used in modern times as a symbol for libertarianism.

Sumerian word or symbol for house or temple

thumb|upright|alt=Rectangle stone tablet with cuneiform inscription|Foundation tablet from the Temple of Inanna at [[Uruk, dating to the reign of Ur-Nammu, featuring the Sumerogram () on the left of the last two rows.]]

thumb|upright=1.3|Modern reconstruction of a mountain house at Nippur

enchanted talking mace in Sumerian mythology

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Sumerian goddess