Noun: primal
| Singular | primal |
| Plural | primals |
Sample Sentences
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DOUBLE ACROSTIC. My primals and finals are the same as the first crossword. [1895, The Woman at Home, page 399:]
Nouns inflected like primal
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably partly from Medieval Latin prīmālis, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + -ālis, and partly from prime + -al. See: Latin Nouns '
prīmus'.