tribal

Meanings

Plural: tribals

Adjective

relating to or characteristic of a tribe
- "tribal customs"

Adj

Of or relating to tribes.
Based on or organized according to tribes.
Phylogenic.

Noun

A design or image that has been influenced by indigenous peoples; especially such a tattoo.
A member of a tribe.

Origin / Etymology

From Latin tribālis. By surface analysis, tribe + -al, first attested in the 1630s. The specific adjectival sense under the defunct theory of recapitulation derives from tribal history as an overly literal learned borrowing from German Stammesgeschichte; ordinarily, Stamm would only be translated as tribe when used in its ethnographic sense.

Scrabble Score: 8

tribal is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
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Words With Friends Score: 10

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