Elemental

1. a. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
2. a. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.