köken: From Middle High German lintwurm, from Old High German lindwurm, lintwurm, from Proto-West Germanic *linþawurmi, from Proto-Germanic *linþawurmiz. By surface analysis, lind + Wurm.
фант. мифическое существо, напоминающее европейского дракона, но только с одной парой лап и одной парой крыльев; часто изображается со змеиным хвостом и, в отличие от драконов, редко бывает огнедышащим
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese serpe, from Vulgar Latin serpes, from Latin serpēns, from serpō (“crawl, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-. Cognate with Galician serpe, Spanish sierpe, Catalan serp, Occitan sèrp, Italian serpe and Romanian șarpe.
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish lindormber, from Middle Low German lindworm, from Proto-Germanic *linþawurmiz. Cognate of Old Norse linnormr. By surface analysis, a compound of orm (“serpent”) and a word of disputed origin, arguably meaning "soft" or "pliable". Compare Old Norse linnr (“snake, serpent”) and Swedish linda (“to wind”), lindare (“tench”), lindra (“to ease”). See also Latin lentus and…
köken: Borrowed from English wyvern, from Middle English wyvere (“viper”), from Old Northern French wivre, from Latin vīpera (“viper; snake, serpent”).