umm no, the word dragon didn't exist in English until the 13th century and even then it is derived from drakontos which means "serpent, giant seafish".

Dragon is a collective title which we arbritrarily place ancient monsters into,

Leviathan is biblical

from your wiki link "In Aztec mythology, Cipactli was a primeval sea monster"

the typically english story of St George and the dragon, seems to fit your claim that all European dragons are land creatures, but its derived from two sources

1. the dragon of Anatolia, which was a 2000 year old tradition by the time the catholics arrived to attribute the story to their saints is derived directly from Tiamat, which was adopted by the Hittites when they looted Babylon in 1600bce
2. the story of Perseus and the Ketos at Joppa, which is barely ten miles from st George's resting place at lodd

both these mythological creatures were fully aquatic, yet the story being told again in a land locked culture gains those attributes required to fit the story into their understanding of nature, i.e. it gains legs



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