Out of pure cussedness, I hereby declare that the racial name of the dragonborn in D&D 4e is "ushutud", which is literally "dragonborn" in dog-Sumerian, based on this Sumerian lexicon. Compare ur-tud, "debt-born", i.e. "domestic servant" (probably "slave").

Why Sumerian? Well, 1. I have an unreasonable affection for Sumerian mythology, which is an elegantly simple polytheism (see digression below), and 2. Sumerian shades gracefully through Akkadian to Babylonian, which is where we find Tiamat, in many ways the ur-dragon of D&D.

Also, who wants to try to figure out enough Akkadian morphophonemics to translate "dragonborn"? Better to stick with Sumerian.

Digression: The modern archetype of the pretty-girl-who-kicks-ass, e.g. Buffy, Xena, a thousand others, may seem like a novel development of creators rooted in a (post-Women's Lib) culture that takes female equality for granted (but compare anime "magical girls", a likely influence), and a more or less positive development for society's treatment of women. However, the notion is literally as old as civilization; one of the primary Sumerian goddesses, the deity of Uruk, was Inanna, the goddess of war and sex. When she wasn't dragging guys out of bars to have sex with them, she was off slaying dragons and conquering foreigners.

(Have some fun googling "sumerian dragon"; there's some interesting stuff out there, most of it unfamiliar to people steeped in the Greco-Roman myth cycle.)

She would have a long and successful career in related cultures as Ishtar (Akkadian), Astarte (northern Semitic) and others. It is probably unsurprising that when the Greeks got hold of her, she shows up with only the sex side preserved; the warrior side was assigned to a goddess constrained to be a virgin. Women can't both fuck and fight, presumably.

Anyway, the point is, the Buffy archetype is awesome, and one of the reasons I have this unreasonable affection for the Sumerians is that they recognized this, and got it right, when the ancient cultures that were more dominant in establishing the basis of modern culture were so fucked up about sex roles.