conclusion, end, ending, finish, finishing, middle

starting, end, commencing, onwards, sometime, mid, culmination, earliest, continuation, first, continuing, earnest, peaking, underway, this, dawning, until, since, going, coinciding, phase, culminating, time, yearlong, nearing, during, coming, outset, onset, autumnal equinox, spring, lasts, ready, embarking, concluding, marking, progresses, heralds, zenith, will, tapering, noon, next, midpoint, beging, scheduled, hopefully, ushering, gradual, ebb, soonest, monthlong, recommenced, thru, muddle through, slated, now, anew, late, supposed, through, till, thereafter, prelude, midst, nadir, commencement, morning watch, juncture, resumed, throughout, period, finally, transitioning, climaxing, shortly, equinoxes, opens, dates, point, when, launching, tentative, completed, witnessing, attic salt, presaging, rebirth, moment, occurring, precedes, arriving, lull, turning, day, twilight, again, maturing, recommence, just, approaching, ninetieth, start, beginnings, idea, example, harbinger, inception, forerunner, omen, testimonial, way, choice, combination, corrective, ending, illustration, inauguration, introduction, likenesses

accession, activation, attack, birth, birthplace, casus belli, conception, constitution, cradle, creation, debut, derivation, egress, emergence, entry, establishment, face-off, first appearance, first step, formation, foundation, founding, fountainhead, genesis, growth, head, headspring, headwaters, home, inauguration, inception, incipience, incipiency, initiation, initiative, installation, installing, installment, instauration, institution, introduction, issue, jumping-off place, jumping-off point, jump ball, launching, moving in, occupation, occupying, opening, opening move, organisation, organization, origin, origination, outgrowth, place of origin, point source, provenance, recommencement, resumption, rise to power, scrum, scrummage, spring, start, starting point, startup, terminus a quo, threshold, tone-beginning, unveiling, wellhead, wellspring

., 1st, abecedarian, abecedarius, aboriginal, aborning, ab initio, accuracy, achondroplasia, achondroplasty, adolesce, adolescence, agnus dei, allegheny, allegheny river, alliteration, alliterative, alpha, anadiplosis, anaphora, annuity in advance, aphaeresis, apheresis, around, arteria radialis, aspect, attack, at first, at the start, auspicious, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, bath mitzvah, bat mitzvah, beatitude, begin, beginning rhyme, blues, budding, build, calendar, cardiac cycle, center, chemistry, chondrodystrophy, christian era, civil rights movement, common era, conception, creation, cubism, dangling participle, dateless, dateline, debut, de novo, dispatcher, dottily, dried-out, early, elision, emergence, endless, entry, epanaphora, epigraph, epipaleolithic, epoch-making, epochal, eternal life, exonuclease, extension, factor analysis, ferdinand the catholic, ferdinand v, filename extension, file name extension, first, first appearance, first grade, flying start, formative, fresh, from scratch, gamey, gamy, great depression, ground floor, growth, headword, head rhyme, hegira, hejira, hesiod, high, hit, icebreaker, immigrate, imperfective, imperfective aspect, in-between, inception, inchoative, inchoative aspect, incipience, incipiency, independence, information age, initial, initially, initial rhyme, introduction, in the beginning, isabella i, isabella the catholic, islamic calendar, jumping-off point, lake poets, large intestine, launching, law of moses, length, life eternal, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, magnificat, maternal-infant bonding, mediate, menstrual cycle, mesasamkranti, mesolithic, mesolithic age, middle, mohammedan calendar, mosaic law, moslem calendar, muhammadan calendar, muslim calendar, native, neolithic, neolithic age, new stone age, nome, olympiad, olympian games, olympic games, omega, omega-3, omega-3 fatty acid, omega-6, omega-6 fatty acid, oncoming, onset, opening, origin, originally, origination, osteosclerosis congenita, outgrowth, overture, palaeolithic, paleolithic, paleolithic age, paragraph, point of departure, predestined, premature labor, premature labour, prepositional phrase, preseason, primaeval, primal, primeval, primitively, primordial, prompt, prompting, psittacosaur, psittacosaurus, quinquagesima, quinquagesima sunday, radial artery, recommencement, reduplication, reporting weight, resumption, roll-on roll-off, rooting, rosh chodesh, rosh hodesh, round, running start, rush hour, school bell, scleredema, scrum, scrummage, segno, sempiternal, significant digit, significant figure, silent, sleepy, space age, springboard, start, starter, starting, suffragette, symploce, theater curtain, theatre curtain, thelarche, thickly, through, tone-beginning, topicalization, trailhead, trail head, unveiling, urinary hesitancy, vignette, whitsun, whitsuntide, whitweek

change of state, division, happening, natural event, occurrence, part, point, point in time, section

abecedarian, basal, basic, commencement, early, elementary, first, kickoff, novice, offset, opening, origin, outset, primary, root, source, start, starting time