Original

Definition: Original

Original

Adjective

1. Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas"; "the book still has its original binding"; "restored the house to its original condition"; "the original performance of the opera"; "the original cast"; "retracted his original statement".

2. (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources".

3. Being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind".

4. Not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French".

Noun

1. An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made.

2. An original model on which something is patterned.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "original" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Fine Arts

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Original

Cause

Adjective: caused; v; causal, original; primary, primitive, primordial; aboriginal; protogenal; radical; embryonic, embryotic; in embryo, in ovo; seminal, germinal; at the bottom of; connate, having a common origin.

Dissimilarity

Adjective: dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind; (class) unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented; original.

Imagination

Imagining;Verb: v, imaginative; original, inventive, creative, fertile.

Laughingstock

Original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon; (jester); pantomimist; (actor).

Nonimitation

Adjective: unimitated, uncopied; unmatched, unparalleled; inimitable; unique, original; creative, inventive, untranslated; exceptional, rare, sui generis uncommon, unexampled.

Prototype

Noun: prototype, original, model, pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type; archetype, protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample, paradigm; lay-figure.

Restoration

Verb: return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to, come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again; get well,get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive; (outlive); resume, reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.

Speciality

Adjective: special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular; (exceptional); idiomatic; idiotypical; typical.

Supposition

Conceit, idea, thought; original idea, invention (imagination).

Unconformity

Nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite.

Newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.

Will

Minded; (willing); prepense; (predetermined); intended; autocratic; unbidden; (bid; ); spontaneous; original; (casual); unconstrained.

Crosswords: Original

French (eccentric, master copy, moose, novel, off center, original, pioneering, pristine, proper, quaint), German (master, master copy, orginal, original, originally, orignal, raw), Norwegian (freak), Papiamen (aboriginal, original), Portuguese (copy, document, manuscript, new, novel, origin, original, primal, primary, primordial, progenitor, queer, unconventional, unhackneyed, unique), Romanian (air hole, archetype, authentic, creative, eccentric, first hand, genuine, odd, original, originally, peculiar, queer, real, true, unique), Serbo-Croatian (master, original), Spanish (aboriginal, creative, first, inventive, manuscript, master copy, novel, odd, oddity, origin, original, primal, prime, pristine, quaint, queer, quiz, singular), Swedish (aboriginal, case, character, crank, eccentric, freak, master, master copy, oddity, original).

Find a truly original idea (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

The original blunt instrument; the poker (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

I'm half asleep again, I must have left the original in the copy machine (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

We're the original displaced persons (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Even if you order them to kill you. So if you do happen to change your mind, it's very difficult to stop them from obeying the original order (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Original, yeah (Original Prankster; performing artist: The Offspring)

Am I original Yeah (Everybody(Backstreet's Back); performing artist: BACKSTREET BOYS)

I like them cuts with the soul and original (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas)

The original rump shakers (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)

'Cause of original sin (What Would You Say; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

Quotations are sometimes valuable pearls, but original thoughts can be priceless treasure. (references; author: unknown)

The Second Original Sin (1972)

Original Cast Album-Company (1970)

Una Apuesta original (1929)

The Original Movie (1922)

Uma Transformista Original (1915)

Original Prankster (performing artist: The Offspring)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers in Mexico: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Original Engineering Consultants Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Original, Hand-Drawn Plans and Drawings for Architectural, Engineering, Industrial, Commercial, Topographical, or Similar Purposes: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Studies in the Rama story : on the irretrievable loss of Valmiki's original and the operation of the received text as seen in some versions of the Valin-Sugriva episode (reference)

• The life of Mahomet : with introductory chapters on the original sources for the biography of Mahomet, and on the pre-Islamite history of Arabia (reference)

• Original Whole Earth Catalog, Special 30th Anniversary Issue (reference)

• Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (reference)

• Past Prologue: The Janus Gate Book Three [of Three](Star Trek The Original Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Original Internist (reference)

• Original Variety Puzzles (reference)

• Review : Washingtons Original Arts-news Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Lone Ranger - The Original Series, Vol. 1 (reference)

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 22, Episodes 43 & 44: Bread And Circuses/ Journey To Babel (reference)

• Original Cast Album - Company (reference)

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 35 - Episodes 69 & 70: That Which Survives/ Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (reference)

• The Original Voltron, Defenders of the Universe - Space Explorers Captured (Vol. 2) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Floundering: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Sense and Sensibility: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1995 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Noir: Original Soundtrack (+ Mouse Pad) [IMPORT] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Lake Placid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Rancho Deluxe: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Canon Original Elph APS Camera (reference)

• MONSTER CABLE OMC-BIG100 Original Monster Speaker Cables (reference)

• Baldur's Gate Original Saga with Tales of the Sword Coast Expansion Pack (reference)

• CASE LOGIC Case for original Sony Playstation Video Game (reference)

• Original War (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Corby 5500 Original Trouser Presser (reference)

• Korkers K-1001-L The Original Sandal (Large Fits Size 10 to 11.5 Shoe) (reference)

• Rotozip RTM01 Original Spiral Saw (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is the 5 A Day ad "The Original Fast Food" that appeared in Washington D.C.'s Metrorail stations during September 1993. The ad has running figurines in the shapes of a banana, an orange juice box, a tomato, carrot and broccoli. Credit: Fred Hirsch (photographer).

Shown is a 5-A-Day ad "The Original Fast Food" that appeared on metrobuses in the Washington D.C. area during September, 1993. The ad includes a running banana, orange juice box, tomoato, carrot and broccoli figurines. Credit: Fred Hirsch (photographer).

Original Walter Reed Army Institute of Research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC. WRAIR. Credit: CDC.

Original 7 Astronauts in Spacesuits. Credit: NASA.

Original NACA Hangars. Credit: NASA.

The planets Neptune and Pluto have been selected as targets for original observations by ... Credit: NASA.

Viking 2 image of the region around the "Inca City". Viking 2 alsoimaged the region, but no evidence of the feature was visible in this image fromorbit 225. It has been enhanced to bring out the details (noise reduced andcontrast enhanced). The resolution of the original image is 0.544 km/pixel andis centered at -81.56 degrees latitude and 69.82 degrees longitude. Reproducedfrom volume 55 of theMission to Mars: Viking Orbiter Images of Mars CD-ROM set. Credit: NASA.

On the border between Chile and the Catamarca province of Argentina lies a vast field of currently dormant volcanoes. Over time, these volcanoes have laid down a crust of magma roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) thick. It is tinged with a patina of various colors that can indicate both the age and mineral content of the original lava flows. Credit: NASA.

Original Station Winton North Base Mark displaced by steam shovel Triangulation party of E. O. Heaton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Ferdinand Hassler's observing tent Probably the original sketch was by John Farley. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And this power has its original only from compact and agreement, and the mutual consent of those who make up the community. (Second Treatise of Government)

The small superior figures preceding the paragraphs designate Clauses, and were not in the original and have no reference to footnotes. (reference)

This is true, yet the jurisdiction must be appellate, not original. (reference)

They wrote their philosophical nonsense beneath the French original. (reference)

Furthermore, the insured shall, subject to the concurrence of the original insurer, be entitled to retransfer the contract to the original insurer as from the date of the demand. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune

The word, which I interpret the Flying or Floating Island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Original art by Omar Rayyan. (references)

Metastases share the name of the original ("primary") tumor. (references)

This wave of secondary death rippled out much further than the original site of injury. (references)

Business

Many local buyers look first for original parts. (references)

The attached label should not cover the original label. (references)

Thirty original operators have now been reduced to two main players, NTL and Telewest. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belarus

Among the 35 original detainees, there were several journalists. (references)

Belgium

No arrests were made or charges filed against church members as a result of the original raid. (references)

Colombia

Some displaced persons move several times after fleeing their original home, making tracking difficult. (references)

Economic History

France

They constitute an original two-dimensional decoration. (references)

Jamaica

Judicial--Court of Appeal and courts of original jurisdiction. (references)

Iceland

Women normally maintain their original surnames after marriage. (references)

Human Rights

Jamaica

The man's original crime had carried a sentence of 3 years. (references)

Hungary

Original jurisdiction in most matters rests with the local courts. (references)

New Zealand

Remaining original jurisdiction rests with 110 judges of the district courts. (references)

Indigenous People

Trinidad and Tobago

Members of a very small group in the population identify themselves as descendants of the original Amerindian population of the country. (references)

Australia

The report also recommended that appropriate recognition be given to the Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders as the original inhabitants of the land. (references)

Japan

The law also left the Ainu with control of only approximately 0.15 percent of their original land holdings and empowered the Government to manage communal assets. (references)

Minorities

Canada

Provincial authorities eventually returned the original children to their home, but the children remain under close provincial supervision. (references)

Japan

When the basic legislation to provide funding for Burakumin programs expired in 1997, the Government enacted legislation effective for 5 years that retains 15 of the original 45 programs for Buraku communities. (references)

Kuwait

Under the law, bidoon who admit to another nationality (or who purchase a passport from a country to which they have no true connection) do not automatically forfeit their claim to citizenship based on Kuwaiti residency prior to 1965. However, the law does not permit dual nationality; thus, if former bidoon eventually are naturalized, they must renounce their original or fictitious nationality. (references)

Political Economy

HUNGARY

In the meantime, the more restrictive original law still governs, which requires 70 percent European content. (references)

Turkey

More than 30,000 persons have returned to their villages or moved to "consolidated villages" near their original homes. (references)

Slovak Rep

Several parliamentarians have since left their original parties, but parties that compose the ruling coalition still enjoy a comfortable majority. (references)

Political Rights

Burundi

Not all of those elected in 1993 are alive or in the country, and the vacant seats were filled by substitutes from the same political party as the original parliamentarian. (references)

Trade

Bahamas

A genuine invoice (original or copy) is required. (references)

Eritrea

The customs office values items based upon the original bill of sale. (references)

Travel

Saudi Arabia

It is advisable to carry prescription drugs in their original labeled containers. (references)

Czech Rep

Keep all prescription drugs in original containers to avoid problems with Customs officials. (references)

Oman

Four original photos are required for the NOC; no photos are required for the passport application. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

Once a union is dissolved, its leaders and members may not form another union for at least 3 years after the original union's dissolution. (references)

Uganda

Some structures have tripled in height above the original foundations, leading local engineers to express reservations about the structural integrity of these workplaces. (references)

Bahrain

Foreign workers, who make up at least 67 percent of the workforce, in many cases arrive in the country under the sponsorship of an employer and then switch jobs while continuing to pay a fee to their original sponsor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "original": brilliantly original idea ♦ in the original ♦ original capital ♦ original cell ♦ original column ♦ original copy ♦ original design ♦ original destination ♦ original document ♦ original edition ♦ original Equipment Manufacturer ♦ original field ♦ original genius ♦ original idea ♦ Original Ingham Method ♦ original inhabitant ♦ original inhabitants ♦ original interval ♦ original issue discount ♦ original language ♦ original manuscript ♦ original population ♦ original rate ♦ original sin ♦ original skin ♦ original string ♦ original table ♦ original text ♦ original thinker ♦ original variable ♦ original version ♦ original work ♦ try to be original ♦ wax original. Additional references.

Beginning with "original": original-design, original-especially, original-looking.

Ending with "original": non-original.

Afrikaans

oorspronklik (aboriginal, originally). (various references)

Albanian

origjinal (originality, patent, pristine, quaint, racy, uncoined, unconventional, unfeigned, unhackneyed), krijues (author, creative, creator, demiurge, implementing, maker, molder, moulder, originative, originator), i ri (adolescent, fledgeling, fledgling, fresh, in mint condition, junior, juvenile, new, novel, red-hot, rising, stripling, teenager, teener, young, youngling, youthful), i parë (aboriginal, early, first, foremost, former, front, headmost, initial, maiden, opening, premier, primary, primitive, progenitor), i hershëm (early, forehanded, forward, old time, precocious, primaeval, primeval, young), fill (alone, at once, immediately, just, promptly, right, right away, right now, start, string, thread, wire, yarn), burim i parë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبتكر (creator, ingenious, innovator, inventor), ‏مبدع (contrived, creator, designed, devised, fashioned, innovated, inventive, originative, originator), ‏الأ صل النسخة الأ صلية, ‏اصلي (main, off center), ‏أصيل (evening, genuine, proper, purebred, quaint, sincere, thoroughbred, trueborn, well bred), ‏أصلي (authentic, bona fide, ethnic, ethnical, fundamental, genetic, genetical, overriding, premier, prime, primordial, pristine, proper, pukka, radical, true), ‏شحخص غريب الأطوار, ‏شخص مبدع, ‏بديع (admirable, adorable, amazing, excellent, fine, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, splendid, superb, unique, unprecedented, wonderful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

самобитен (individual, substantive), чудак (case, codger, crank, cure, eccentric, faddist, odd-ball, oddity, quiz, weirdie, weirdy), творчески (constructive, creative, imaginative, inventive, originative, parturient, positive, productive, seminal), особняк (card, crank, erratic, freak, oddity), особен (distinct, especial, exclusive, fanciful, funny, idiosyncratic, individual, odd, particular, peculiar, queer, special, specific, strange, uncommon), оригинален (genuine, novel, patent, picturesque, protoplastic, provocative, unconventional, unhackneyed, unworn), оригинал (exemplar, protoplast, prototype, script), начален (auroral, elemental, embryo, inceptive, incipient, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, opening), най-ранен (foremost, primitive, primordial), ексцентричен (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, kinky, lunatic, off beat, outrageous, outre, peculiar, pixilated, queer, singular, viewy), автентичен (authentic, genuine, real, simon-pure), първоначален (autochthonal, elementary, grade, initial, primary, prime, primordial), първичен (aboriginal, elemental, live, living, primary, prime, primordial, pristine, protogenic, rudimental), достоверен (accredited, authentic, authoritative, straight). (various references)

Chinese 

原始 (first, primitive). (various references)

Czech

originální (genuine, imaginative, novel, quaint), originál (script), prvotní (prime, primeval, primitive, raw), poèáteèní (inceptive, incipient, initial, opening, rudimentary), pùvodní (novel, prime, primitive). (various references)

Danish

original (copy, master), oprindelig (aboriginal), primitiv (primitive, primordial). (various references)

Dutch

origineel (aboriginal). (various references)

Esperanto

originalo, originala, origina (aboriginal). (various references)

Faeroese

upprunaligur (primary), uppruna. (various references)

Farsi 

منبع (Cistern, Fountain, Mine, Resource, Source), سرچشمه (Derivation, Fountain, Mother, Principle, Root, Source, Spring, Springhead), اصلی (Arch, Basic, Cardinal, Elementary, Essential, Fundametal, Genuine, Germinal, Head, Immanent, Ingrown, Inherent, Initial, Innate, Intrinsic, Main, Net, Primary, Prime, Primordial, Principal, Seminal), بکر (Mint), بدیع (Exquisite, Novel, Picturesque). (various references)

Finnish

originaali, omintakeinen (independent), omaperäinen (independent), alkuperäinen kappale, alkuperäinen aineisto, alkukieli, alku (beginning, commencement, initial, origin, outset, rise, start). (various references)

French

original. (various references)

German

Original (master, master copy, orginal, originally, orignal, raw), vorlage (artwork, bill, draft, forward lean, mat, model, pass, pattern, presentation, production, rug, submission, submittal, trough-ball), ursprünglich (aboriginal, at first, first, fundamental, in the beginning, initial, initially, natural, orginally, originally, primal, primarily, primary, primordial, pristine, unspoiled, unspoilt), Urschrift (original copy, original text), originell (novel, originally, quaint, quaintly, witty). (various references)

Greek 

πρωτότυπο (blueprint, prototype, script, top copy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקורי (rostral), אוריגינלי, ראשוני (ancient, basic, first, primal, primary, prime, primitive, rudimentary). (various references)

Hungarian

veleszületett (congenital, connate, inborn, inbred, innate), kezdeti (aboriginal, early, germinal, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, initial, initiatory, primaeval), eredeti példány, eredeti (aboriginal, genuine, initial, native, novel, primaeval, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primordial, pristine, true, unsophisticated), eredendő. (various references)

Indonesian

tulen (genuine), totok (genuine, native), babon (hen), asli (authentic, autochthnous, genuine), asali (ancient, primary, wellborn). (various references)

Italian

originale (eccentric, new, odd, originally, queer, racy, real, refreshing, rummy, strange), primitivo (primaeval, primal, primeval, primitive, rude, savage, wild), originario (indigenous, native of, native to, originally, primary). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

奇抜 (eccentric, fantastic, novel, strange, striking). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっぷうかわった (eccentric, peculiar, queer, singular, unconventional), げん (bow string, chord, fundamental, handle, not to be touched, primary, primitive, raw, remark, serious, statement, string, word), げんてん (give a demerit, origin, starting point, subtract), げんぶん (the text), げんしてき (primitive), もと (former, origin), じつぶつ (real thing), オリジナル , きばつ (eccentric, fantastic, novel, strange, striking), せいほん (book making, facsimile, text), どくじ (characteristic, peculiar), どくそうてき (creative), ふるった (different, eccentric, extraordinary, striking), きけい (abnormality, clever scheme, deformity, freak, tricks, wiles, witty, you), ざんしん (false subject, follow-through, newness, novel), めあたらしい (new, novel). (various references)

Korean 

원래. (various references)

Manx

noa (fresh, modern, new, novel, recent), fraueagh (bulbous, fundamental), bunneydagh (authoritative, basic, elemental, firsthand, fundamental, fundamentalist, primitive, primordial, radical, rudimentary, underlying, vital), bun (base, basis, bottom, derivation, details, dope, end, explanation, eye of storm, foot, foundation, heart, interpretation, news, origin, prime, principle, raw material, root, root cause, sole, source, stem, stool, stump, underneath). (various references)

Papiamen

original (aboriginal). (various references)

Pig Latin

originalay.(various references)

Portuguese

original (document, manuscript, new, novel, origin, primal, primary, primordial, progenitor, queer, unconventional, unhackneyed, unique). (various references)

Romanian

originalitate (eccentricity, script), original (air hole, archetype, authentic, creative, eccentric, first hand, genuine, odd, originally, peculiar, queer, real, true, unique), prim (early, first, foremost, front, fundamental, initial, maiden, one, premier, primal, prime), personal (by oneself, individual, individually, own, particular, peculiarly, personal, personally, personnel, private, staff), nou (added, another, fresh, maiden, new, new-built, novel, patent, up to date), iniţial (inceptive, inchoative, incipient, initial, initially, originally, primary), exemplar prim, excentric (bizarre, crackpot, cranky, crazy, crotchety, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, lunatic, maggot, nut, odd, oddity, queer, tappet), din naştere (native), creator (architect, author, constructive, creative, creator, father, fitter, founder, originator), înnãscut (born, connate, connatural, inborn, inbred, inherent, innate, native). (various references)

Russian 

самобытный (distinctive), творческий (constructive, creative, originative), оригинал (archetype, foul copy, master copy, oddball, rough copy), подлинный (authentic, genuine, simon-pure, true, uncoined, veritable), подлинник исходный, подлинник (original copy, original work), первоначальный (archetypal, elementary, initial, primal, prime), исконный (aboriginal, archetypal, native, primordial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

originalan, original (master), obrazac (byword, form, model, pattern), svojstven (characteristic, distinctive, typical), prvobitan (former, primal, primary, primordial), prauzorak, izvorno delo, izvoran (authentic). (various references)

Spanish

original (aboriginal, creative, first, inventive, manuscript, master copy, novel, odd, oddity, origin, primal, prime, pristine, quaint, queer, quiz, singular), primitivo (a b c, a.b.c., abc, aboriginal, early, initial, primaeval, primal, primeval, primitive). (various references)

Swedish

original (aboriginal, case, character, crank, eccentric, freak, master, master copy, oddity), ursprunglig (aboriginal, coming, natural, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, simple), originell (eccentric, novel, unconventional, whimsical). (various references)

Thai

ใหม่ (new, novel), ที่สร้างสรรค์, ต้นฉบับ (text), ซึ่งเป็นแบบฉบับ, คนที่แปลกไม่เหมือนใคร. (various references)

Turkish

orijinal kimse, orijinal (inventive, prototype, straight), ilginç tip (crackpot, gink, kook, quiz, specimen), asıl nüsha (autography), asıl (actual, authentic, Cardinal, central, elementary, extraction, foundation, fountain-head, gist, groundwork, in chief, intrinsic, main, master, origin, origination, pivotal, principal, principally, provenance, real, root stock, true, virtual), özgün canlı. (various references)

Turkmen 

цzboluюly (distinctive, peculiar). (various references)

Ukrainian

незапозичений, дивний (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bizarre, capricious, curious, freakish, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, strange, unaccountable, weird, wonderful, wondrous), первотвір, первісний (aboriginal, antecedent, archetypal, barbaric, initial, originary, primaeval, primal, prime, primeval, primitive), перший (arch-, first, one, opening, premier, primary, prime, primus, virgin), першоджерело (first hand, fountain-head), перші поселенці, перші мешканці, початок (authorship, beginning, breaking, commencement, cradle, dawn, dawning, day-spring, first, inception, incipience, morning, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, set out, start, starting, womb), початковий (a.b.c., arch-, archetypal, basic, elemental, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, infant, initial, initiative, initiatory, institutional, opening, originary, primary, prime, primordial, protoplastic), походження (ancestry, beginning, birth, blood, caste, derivation, genesis, kin, lineage, origin, origination, parentage, pedigree, provenance, source, strain), природжений (born, congenial, congenital, connate, habitual, inborn, inbred, ingrain, ingrained, ingrown, inherent, innate, native, natural, organic, true born, unschooled), дивак (case, caution, codger, crotcheteer, eccentric, faddist, maggot, oddball, oddbod, oddity, quiz, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy), автор (author, creator, originator, writer), свіжий (breezy, brisk, caller, clean, crisp, fresh, green, new, new-laid, racy, sweet), незвичайний (extraordinary, king size, non-conventional, offbeat, out of the way, outlandish, portentous, transcendental, unaccustomed, uncommon, unique, unusual), новий (another, fresh, new, new-made, novel, young, youthful), оригінал (archetype, nonconformist, protoplast, text), оригінал портрета, оригінальний (fresh, nonconformist, offbeat, patent, picturesque, quaint, queerish), оригінальний твір, творець (architect, author, creator, demiurge, father, former, maker, molder, moulder, originator, protoplast), творчий (constructive, creative, formative, omnific, originative), спадковий (ancestral, hereditary, heritable, inheritable, lineal), справжній (active, actual, authentic, factual, genuine, honest, intrinsic, intrinsical, natural, operative, practical, pukka, real, sheer, simon-pure, sincere, true, true born, unadulterated, undoubted, unfeigned, veridic, veridical, veritable, very), самобутній (wild), своєрідний, прототип (antetype, archetype, double, protoplast, prototype). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nguyên bản người độc đáo, người lập dị (eccentric, fantastic). (various references)

Welsh

gwreiddiol (radical, rooted), cysefin (primordial). (various references)

exemplar, exemplari, exemplaria, exemplarque, pristinam, pristini, pristinis, pristinos, pristinum. (various references)

matricalis. (various references)

bysen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "original": originalities, originality, originally, originals. (additional references)

Words ending with "original": aboriginal, unoriginal. (additional references)

Words containing "original": aboriginally, aboriginals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Original" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boriginal, Eriugena, Norgyal, Orbignya, orginal, orginial, origenal, origina, originale, originali, Originalia, originall, originaly, origine, originel, originol, origional, origionaly, orignal, origninal, origonal, Ortigia, rhigian, torigian, Torrigiani, Torrigiano. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lairing, ligroin, railing, roiling.

-2 letters: ailing, airing, gloria, nilgai, oaring, oiling, onagri, origan, origin, riling.

-3 letters: aioli, algin, algor, align, aloin, along, argil, argol, argon, garni, giron, glair, gnarl, gonia, goral, grail, grain, groan, groin, iring, largo, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, logan, logia, loran, noria, orang, organ.

-4 letters: agin, agio, agon, airn, anil, aril.

+1 letter: originals, tailoring.

+2 letters: aboriginal, calorizing, caprioling, clarioning, moralising, moralizing, originally, parboiling, polarising, polarizing, seignorial, solarising, solarizing, tailorings, unoriginal, valorising, valorizing.

+3 letters: aboriginals, bioregional, formalising, formalizing, glamorising, glamorizing, granolithic, invigilator, legionaries, legionnaire, meliorating, migrational, mineralogic, mislaboring, normalising, normalizing, originality, outrivaling, panbroiling, proclaiming, railroading, regionalism, regionalist, regionalize, retailoring, vainglories.

+4 letters: aboriginally, aerosolizing, allegorising, allegorizing, ameliorating, antireligion, billboarding, bipolarizing, boardsailing, carillonning, charbroiling, chlorinating, craniologies, demoralizing, depolarizing, digressional, fluoridating, fluorinating, glamourizing, invigilators, journalizing, legionnaires, mineralogies, mineralogist, monsignorial, obliterating, outrivalling, overclaiming, popularising, popularizing, railroadings, regionalisms, regionalists, regionalized, regionalizes, repolarizing, revalorizing, sailboarding, trampolining, urinogenital, vainglorious.