Afrikaans oorspronklik | ||
Albanian fillimisht | ||
Amharic በመጀመሪያ | ||
Arabic في الأصل | ||
Armenian ի սկզբանե | ||
Assamese মূলতঃ | ||
Aymara qalltanxa | ||
Azerbaijani əvvəlcə | ||
Bambara a daminɛ na | ||
Basque jatorriz | ||
Belarusian першапачаткова | ||
Bengali মূলত | ||
Bhojpuri मूल रूप से कहल गइल बा | ||
Bosnian izvorno | ||
Bulgarian първоначално | ||
Catalan originalment | ||
Cebuano orihinal | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 本来 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 本來 | ||
Corsican uriginale | ||
Croatian izvorno | ||
Czech původně | ||
Danish oprindeligt | ||
Dhivehi އަސްލު | ||
Dogri मूल रूप च | ||
Dutch oorspronkelijk | ||
English originally | ||
Esperanto origine | ||
Estonian algselt | ||
Ewe le gɔmedzedzea me | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) orihinal | ||
Finnish alun perin | ||
French à l'origine | ||
Frisian oarspronklik | ||
Galician orixinalmente | ||
Georgian თავდაპირველად | ||
German ursprünglich | ||
Greek αρχικά | ||
Guarani iñepyrũrãme | ||
Gujarati મૂળ | ||
Haitian Creole orijinal | ||
Hausa asali | ||
Hawaiian kumu | ||
Hebrew בְּמָקוֹר | ||
Hindi मौलिक रूप से | ||
Hmong keeb kwm | ||
Hungarian eredetileg | ||
Icelandic upphaflega | ||
Igbo na mbụ | ||
Ilocano orihinal nga | ||
Indonesian semula | ||
Irish ar dtús | ||
Italian originariamente | ||
Japanese もともと | ||
Javanese asline | ||
Kannada ಮೂಲತಃ | ||
Kazakh бастапқыда | ||
Khmer ដើមឡើយ | ||
Kinyarwanda mu ntangiriro | ||
Konkani मुळांतूच | ||
Korean 원래 | ||
Krio fɔs | ||
Kurdish eslen | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لە بنەڕەتدا | ||
Kyrgyz башында | ||
Lao ເດີມ | ||
Latin primum | ||
Latvian sākotnēji | ||
Lingala na ebandeli | ||
Lithuanian iš pradžių | ||
Luganda mu kusooka | ||
Luxembourgish ursprénglech | ||
Macedonian првично | ||
Maithili मूलतः | ||
Malagasy am-boalohany | ||
Malay asalnya | ||
Malayalam യഥാർത്ഥത്തിൽ | ||
Maltese oriġinarjament | ||
Maori tuatahi | ||
Marathi मूलतः | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯔꯤꯖꯤꯅꯦꯜ ꯑꯣꯏꯅꯥ ꯑꯦꯟ.ꯗꯤ.ꯑꯦ | ||
Mizo a tir chuan | ||
Mongolian анхнаасаа | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မူလ | ||
Nepali मौलिक | ||
Norwegian opprinnelig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) poyamba | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମୂଳତ। | | ||
Oromo jalqaba irratti | ||
Pashto په اصل کې | ||
Persian در اصل | ||
Polish pierwotnie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) originalmente | ||
Punjabi ਅਸਲ ਵਿੱਚ | ||
Quechua qallariypiqa | ||
Romanian iniţial | ||
Russian изначально | ||
Samoan muamua | ||
Sanskrit मूलतः | ||
Scots Gaelic bho thùs | ||
Sepedi mathomong | ||
Serbian оригинално | ||
Sesotho qalong | ||
Shona pakutanga | ||
Sindhi اصل ۾ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මුලින් | ||
Slovak pôvodne | ||
Slovenian originalno | ||
Somali asal ahaan | ||
Spanish originalmente | ||
Sundanese aslina | ||
Swahili awali | ||
Swedish ursprungligen | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) orihinal | ||
Tajik аслан | ||
Tamil முதலில் | ||
Tatar башта | ||
Telugu మొదట | ||
Thai เดิม | ||
Tigrinya ኣብ መጀመርታ | ||
Tsonga eku sunguleni | ||
Turkish aslında | ||
Turkmen aslynda | ||
Twi (Akan) mfiase no | ||
Ukrainian спочатку | ||
Urdu اصل میں | ||
Uyghur ئەسلىدە | ||
Uzbek dastlab | ||
Vietnamese ban đầu | ||
Welsh yn wreiddiol | ||
Xhosa ekuqaleni | ||
Yiddish ערידזשנאַלי | ||
Yoruba ni akọkọ | ||
Zulu ekuqaleni |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "oorspronklik" comes from the German word "ursprünglich" and has the same meaning. |
| Albanian | The word "fillimisht" is also used to mean "at first" or "initially" in Albanian. |
| Amharic | The word "በመጀመሪያ" can also mean "at first" or "in the beginning." |
| Arabic | The word "في الأصل" can also mean "in the beginning" or "at the outset". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "əvvəlcə" in Azerbaijani also means "firstly" or "at first". |
| Basque | The word "jatorriz" can also be used to refer to the original state of something or the origin of something. |
| Belarusian | In Old Church Slavonic, "першапачаткова" could mean "first" as well as "originally." |
| Bengali | The word "মূলত" (mūlata) in Bengali derives from the Sanskrit word "mūla" meaning "root" or "origin". |
| Bosnian | The word 'izvorno' in Bosnian can also mean 'native', 'original', 'authentic', or 'pristine'. |
| Bulgarian | The word "първоначално" can also mean "at the beginning", "initially" or "originally", and is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *pьrvъ, meaning "first". |
| Catalan | The word "originalment" comes from the Latin "originalis", meaning "pertaining to the origin". |
| Cebuano | "Orihinal" can also mean "initially," "authentically," or "genuinely." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The first character '本' of "本来" means 'root' while the second '来' means 'origin'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 本 can also mean root or origin, while 來 signifies the source or beginning. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "uriginale" can also mean "genuine" or "authentic." |
| Croatian | The word "izvorno" in Croatian can also mean "authentic" or "traditional." |
| Czech | Originally "původně" meant "according to the origin"} |
| Danish | Oprindeligt' comes from old Norse 'orpi' (inheritance) and 'vindr' (gain) |
| Dutch | "Oorspronkelijk" can also mean "indigenous" in Dutch, such as "oorspronkelijke bewoners" ("indigenous people"). |
| Esperanto | "Origine" can also mean "origin" or "source" in other languages. |
| Estonian | The word "algselt" also has the meaning of "the very first". |
| Finnish | The word "alun" is an archaic form of "alku" (beginning, source) and "perin" is a short form of "perintö" (heritage, tradition). |
| French | “À l'origine” means both “originally” and “the origin”, so French dictionaries usually have two entries for it with those meanings. |
| Frisian | Oarspronklik, in Frisian, is derived from the word oarsprong (origin), and can also mean 'in the first place'. |
| Galician | Galician orixinalmente derives from Latin "originaliter" meaning "from the beginning" and is semantically equivalent to "inicialmente" (initially). |
| German | "Ursprünglich" also means "primitive" or "basic" in German. |
| Greek | The word "αρχικά" (originally) comes from the Greek word "αρχή" (beginning) and means "in the beginning" or "at the start". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "મૂળ" can also mean "root" or "basis". |
| Haitian Creole | "Orijinal" can also mean authentic, not forged or copied. |
| Hausa | Hausa "asali" (''originally'') also means ''first wife'' in the context of polygamy, or ''the actual thing'' as in "asali gaskia'' (''the original truth'') and "asali abin'' (''the authentic thing''). |
| Hawaiian | "Kumu" is the Hawaiian word for "originally", as well as a term for teachers and experts in a variety of subjects. |
| Hebrew | The word "במקור" can also mean "in the source" or "from the source". |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'मौलिक रूप से' (' मूलतः ') is derived from the Sanskrit word 'मूल' (root), which also connotes the notions of 'fundamentally' and 'essentially' |
| Hmong | The word 'keeb kwm' can also mean 'customarily' or 'traditionally'. |
| Hungarian | Eredetileg has the same root as ered, meaning "origin" or "source". |
| Icelandic | The word "upphaflega" in Icelandic originally meant "the beginning" or "the first part" of something. |
| Igbo | The word "na mbụ" in Igbo is also used in the context of "from the beginning" or "all along." |
| Indonesian | "Semula" comes from the Sanskrit word "sam" (together) and "ula" (again), meaning "to gather again" or "to unite again." |
| Irish | The noun "ar dtús" also means "beginning", "origin", and "source" in Irish. |
| Italian | The Italian word “originariamente” derives from the Latin “origo” which means “beginning” and the suffix “-mente” which indicates manner or way. |
| Japanese | Originally a combination of the adverbs **もとより** (**motto yori** - all the more so) and **もって** (**motte** - by means of), **もともと** (**motomoto** - originally) denotes a state or quality that is inherent to something. |
| Javanese | The word "asline" in Javanese is derived from the Sanskrit word "asalin", which also means "origin". In modern Javanese, the word "asline" is often used to refer to the original form of something, or to its origin. |
| Kannada | ಮೂಲತಃ is derived from the Sanskrit 'mūla', which means 'root' |
| Kazakh | The word "бастапқыда" can also refer to the beginning of a story or event. |
| Khmer | The word "ដើមឡើយ" can also mean "the beginning" or "the first time". |
| Kurdish | Eslen is an adverb in Kurdish that can be used to mean 'originally' or 'previously'. |
| Kyrgyz | Башында is also used to refer to the first part or beginning of something. |
| Lao | ເດີມ is sometimes used to refer to the past, a former time, or an old style. |
| Latin | "Primum" is derived from the Latin word "primus" meaning "first" or "foremost". |
| Latvian | The word "sākotnēji" in Latvian has its origins in the Old Prussian word "sakūtan" meaning "from the beginning". |
| Lithuanian | "Iš pradžių" in Lithuanian can also mean "at first", "in the beginning", or "initially". |
| Macedonian | The word "првично" can also mean "primitive". |
| Malagasy | The word "am-boalohany" can also mean "at first" or "in the beginning" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | The word "asalnya" is derived from the Javanese word "asli", meaning "true" or "genuine". |
| Maltese | The word "oriġinarjament" derives from the Latin "origo" meaning "source" or "beginning". |
| Maori | Tuatahi, in Māori, also refers to the firstborn child or the beginning of something. |
| Marathi | मूलतः is also used in the sense of "at first" and sometimes "in the beginning." |
| Mongolian | The word "анхнаасаа" comes from the Mongolian verb "анхнах" (to begin), and it is often used to refer to the beginning of a story or event. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | မူလ can also mean "root" "base" "beginning" "origin" or "source". |
| Nepali | The word "मौलिक" in Nepali comes from the Sanskrit word "मूल" which means "root" or "base". |
| Norwegian | The word "opprinnelig" is derived from the Old Norse word "uppruni", meaning "beginning" or "source." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "poyamba" in Nyanja (Chichewa) also means "at first" and "to begin with." |
| Persian | In Persian, "در اصل" (dar asl) literally means "in the root" and can also be used to mean "in reality" or "in fact". |
| Polish | In Polish, "pierwotnie" can also mean "primitively" or "in the first place". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Portuguese originally used 'originalmente' (originally) in the 14th century as the plural of 'originário,' a descendant of Latin's adjective "originarius." |
| Punjabi | The word "ਅਸਲ ਵਿੱਚ" ("originally") derives from the word "ਅਸਲ" (which originally meant "property" or "reality") and can also be used to mean "really" or "in fact". |
| Romanian | The word "iniţial" is derived from the Latin word "initialis," meaning "pertaining to a beginning" or "first in order." |
| Russian | In the Russian language, the word "изначально" can also mean "in the beginning", "from the start". |
| Samoan | The word "muamua" also means "foundation" or "beginning." |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'bho thùs' in Scots Gaelic can also mean 'from this' or 'since then'. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "оригинално" comes from the Latin word "originalis" which means "of or belonging to the origin". |
| Shona | The word 'pakutanga' is derived from the verb 'kutanga', meaning 'to start' or 'to begin'. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "اصل ۾" also means "essentially" or "fundamentally". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "මුලින්" may also mean 'to go round, surround, envelop,' and 'to bend down, to lower' in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The root "pôvod" is related to the word "počiatok", which means "beginning." |
| Slovenian | The word "originalno" in Slovenian also means "creative" or "unique." |
| Somali | The word "asal ahaan" in Somali can also mean "by nature" or "by birth." |
| Spanish | The word "originalmente" derives from Latin and can also mean "initially" or "primarily." |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "aslina" can also mean "essence" or "inner self" |
| Swahili | "Awali" is used in Swahili to refer to the commencement, foundation or inception of something. |
| Swedish | In German, "ursprünglich" means "original", but with an emphasis on the origin or beginning of something. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Orihinal" is a Filipino word with the same meaning as the English "original", but the spelling "orihinal" is based on a Spanish cognate. |
| Tajik | The word "аслан" in Tajik can also mean "lion" or "king". |
| Tamil | The word 'முதலில்' can also mean 'at first' or 'primarily' in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The word "మొదట" can also mean "first" or "beginning". |
| Thai | The term "เดิม" can be defined in two forms 1.originally , at first 2.as soon as, straight away. |
| Turkish | A combination of the words 'asla' ('never') and 'kadı' ('judge'), it originally meant 'the judge never said'. |
| Ukrainian | Українське слово “спочатку” має давньоруське походження, а його початкове значення було “від самого початку”. |
| Urdu | The expression "اصل میں" is an Urdu expression which can also mean "essentially", "fundamentally", or "primarily" in terms of meaning and function. |
| Uzbek | Dastlab is derived from the Persian word "dastlab" meaning "first work" or "first attempt". |
| Vietnamese | The word "ban đầu" in Vietnamese can also mean "at first" or "from the beginning." |
| Xhosa | The word 'ekuqaleni' also means 'the beginning'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ערידזשנאַלי" (originally) is derived from the German word "originally". |
| Yoruba | The word "ni akọkọ" can also mean "at first" or "in the beginning". |
| Zulu | "Ekuqaleni" is a Zulu word that can also mean "in the beginning" or "from the very first". |
| English | The word 'originally' can also mean 'in a fundamental or essential way'. |