primal

Being first in time; original; primeval.

Of first importance; primary.

Primary; first in time, order, or importance; original; primitive.

[capitalized] In geology, the earliest of H. D. Rogers’s divisions of the Paleozoic series of Pennsylvania, equivalent to the Potsdam sandstone of the New York Survey.

In natural history, specifically, of or pertaining to the kingdom Primalia.

First; primary; original; chief.

Being the first in time, or history.

Being of greatest importance; primary.

serving as an essential component

having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state