Primordial

Adjective

 * 1) first, earliest or original
 * 2)  characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium
 * 3) primeval

Derived terms

 * primordial black hole
 * primordial cell
 * primordial element
 * primordial fluctuations
 * primordial soup

Thesaurus
aboriginal, ancestral, antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthonous, basal, basic, central, crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, humanoid, in embryo, in ovo, original, patriarchal, preadamite, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, pristine, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman, radical, rudimentary, seminal

Etymology
From the primordialis:. Confer primordium: and -al:.

Translations

 * Finnish: ,
 * Icelandic:, upprunalegur, upphaf


 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1) vital, essential

Adjective

 * 1) primordial