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…