Primeval

Adjective

 * 1) Belonging to the first ages.
 * 2) Primary; original.
 * 3) Primitive.

Thesaurus
abecedarian, aboriginal, ancestral, ancient, antenatal, antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthonous, basal, basic, beginning, budding, central, creative, crucial, early, elemental, elementary, embryonic, erstwhile, fetal, fore, formative, former, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, humanoid, immemorial, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, late, nascent, natal, old, olden, once, onetime, original, parturient, past, patriarchal, postnatal, preadamite, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, prenatal, previous, primal, primary, prime, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, prior, pristine, procreative, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman, quondam, radical, recent, rudimental, rudimentary, seminal, sometime, then, ur

Alternative forms

 * primaeval
 * primæval

Etymology
< primevous: + -al:. Further, primevous: < primaevus: < primus: + aevum:; see prime and age.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: primitif
 * Greek: αρχέγονος
 * Irish: príomhaoiseach, cianaosta


 * Manx: bun-eashagh
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: àrsaidh, seantaidh
 * Tagalog: ka-noon-noonan; noong-unang-panahon