nascent
NAY-suntadjMeaning just born; only beginning to exist or grow
Memory hook NASC = BORN: a just-hatched chick. The chick has just pecked its way out of the shell, and its life has only begun. Something that new is nascent.
With six teams and one muddy field, the town’s nascent soccer league was only a few weeks old.
In context The club was still nascent, with only six members and no meeting room, but its founders had big plans for the year ahead.
Similar budding, emerging, developing, embryonic
Opposite mature, established, dying
From Latin nascens, “being born,” from nasci (to be born), the same root as native and nature.