En-lil  bears a Sumerian name in both the Sumerian and Akkadian traditions, the Akkadians never having felt the need of translating it into their own language.  It means 'Lord Breath'.  The god being the life-giving wind.  He created vegetation and the spade and the plough and, indeed, everything that is best in this world.  But, being the god who loves, he is also the god who punishes, the destructive, hurricane wind.  Gudea a rulder of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash in the XXiind century B.C., characteristically mentions the 'Flood of En-Lil'.<P>
........................The Babylonian Legend of the Flood, p 16.