Talk:Wyvern/@comment-5337347-20130118035719

I love the wording people sometimes choose:

"Wyverns, in actual fact, are only suppose to have their back legs with no arms/front legs."

As if they'd met a wyvern or something. While the aforementioned is true, the phrasing of it struck me as odd.

Yes, in mythology, wyverns are meant to have only two legs, or sometimes none. The name of the wyvern stems from the Middle English "wyvere", itself stemming from the Old French "wivre", and itself further from the Latin "vipera" (viper).