2 entries under this word

Aboriginal

Ăb'o-rĭg'i-nal, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. ab and origo, origin, q. v.] First; original; primitive; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. Their [the Biscayners'] language is accounted aboriginal. Swinburne.

Ăb'o-rĭg'i-nal, n.

noun

An original inhabitant; one of the aborigines.