[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

primal \pri"mal\, a. ll. primalis, fr. l. primus the first. see
   prime, a.
   first; primary; original; chief.
   1913 webster

         it hath the primal eldest curse upon it. --shak.
   1913 webster

         the primal duties shine aloft like stars. --wordsworth.
   1913 webster
see also:
prime 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

primal
     adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the
            central cause of the problem"; "an example that was
            fundamental to the argument"; "computers are
            fundamental to modern industrial structure" syn: cardinal,
             central, fundamental, key
     2: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or
        original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal
        eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest
        primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"
        syn: aboriginal, primeval, primaeval, primordial
see also:
cardinal central fundamental key aboriginal primeval 
primaeval primordial 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

154 moby thesaurus words for "primal":
   ab ovo, abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, arch, atavistic,
   austere, autochthonous, banner, bare, basal, basic, basilar,
   beginning, bodily, born, budding, capital, cardinal, central,
   champion, chaste, chief, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate,
   connatural, constituent, constitutional, constitutive, creative,
   crowning, crucial, dominant, elemental, elementary, embryonic,
   essential, fetal, first, focal, foremost, formative, foundational,
   fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, great, gut,
   headmost, hegemonic, hereditary, homely, homespun, homogeneous,
   in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the blood, in the bud,
   inaugural, inborn, inbred, incarnate, inceptive, inchoate,
   inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indigenous, indivisible,
   infant, infantile, inherited, initial, initiative, initiatory,
   innate, instinctive, instinctual, introductory, inventive,
   irreducible, leading, magisterial, main, master, material, mere,
   monolithic, nascent, natal, native, native to, natural, natural to,
   of a piece, of the essence, organic, original, overruling,
   paramount, parturient, physical, plain, postnatal, predominant,
   preeminent, pregnant, prenatal, preponderant, prevailing, primary,
   prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primordial, principal,
   pristine, procreative, protogenic, pure, pure and simple, radical,
   ranking, rudimental, rudimentary, ruling, seminal, severe,
   simon-pure, simple, single, sovereign, spare, star, stark, stellar,
   substantial, substantive, supereminent, temperamental, topflight,
   unadorned, uncluttered, underlying, undifferenced,
   undifferentiated, uniform, ur

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