original

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
original/əˈrɪʤənl/

▶adjective

• 1 existing from the beginning; first or earliest.

• 2 created personally by a particular artist, writer, etc.; not a copy.

• 3 inventive or novel.

▶noun

• 1 the earliest form of something, from which copies can be made.

  ■ (the original) the language in which something was first written.

• 2 an eccentric or unusual person.

– derivatives
originality noun,
originally adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr., or from L. originalis, from origin- (see origin).