The phrase "first originated" is a valid and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that was the first of its kind or the first instance of its kind. For example, "The custom of trick-or-treating first originated in the United States."
Now, was the appeal of that music rooted in a deep appreciation of where it had first originated, centuries back?
On the Wednesday I took a boat out to the Isla de la Sol, from which the Incas first originated.
He held that fire first originated from water and that these two, operating as contrary forces, produced the physical cosmos.
He felt that thoughts by the tribes on these matters led eventually to taboos, and that group exogamy (out-marriage) first originated in the formation of totemistic associations.
The outbreak, Uganda's first, originated in Gulu, 225 miles north of Kampala, in September, and since Nov. 12, four people have died in Masindi, midway between Kampala and Gulu, and four in Mbarara, in the far southwest of the country.
There were scattered protests across England, especially around Newcastle, where the idea for the protest first originated, and in Brighton, where several hundred people gathered in a park to support the day of action.
"The assertion that Bacon was imprisoned (allegedly by the head of his own Franciscan order) first originates some eighty years after his death and has drawn skepticism on these grounds alone.
OPCs first originate from the motor neuron progenitor (pMN) domain of the ventral neural tube under the influence of Shh signalling from the notochord and floorplate [3], [4].
It has been suggested that genes conferring an advantage to males first originate on the X-chromosome and move to an autosomal location later in evolution [ 42, 47].
The second originated last fall, when Mr. Oursler was asked by the MUSÉE D'ORSAY to choose something in its collection and create a work of art in response to it.
They tabulated the causes of 148 cases of lethal aggression, and found that two thirds originated from within-group conflicts.
