Anchiton as a transcription from Greek

[RenegadeHealer]

Since you're looking into this, Koen, I should mention something I frequently see in manuscripts...

On the matter of whether something is a hard-h or soft-h sound, often if it was a hard-h, scribes would add a "c" character. It didn't mean "ch" as in English, it was like the "h" in Hebrew or hard-g in Dutch. So, sometimes they wrote it "h" and sometimes they wrote it "ch".

Which means... anchiton might be an alternate spelling of anhiton (or as Jeff Dunham would say, an-phlegm-iton).

Indeed, I reckon that ever since the Romans first started using "ch" to transcribe the Greek aspirated [k], the bigram "ch" has overwhelmingly been used as a way to write a non-sibilant fricative produced in the back of the pharynx such as [ç], [x], [χ], or [ħ]. I would bet that this still remains the case in most of Europe today, despite the international hegemony of English, French and Spanish, which use "ch" for a sibilant fricative like [ʃ] or [tʃ]. When I'm trying to sound out a the name of a person of clear European heritage whose name I've never heard before, as a rule "ch" is [k] or [x] until they tell me otherwise, and "j" is the IPA's [j] (i.e. a yod) until they tell me otherwise. I get a lot of pleasantly surprised "You're the first one in a long time to say my name right!" when I follow this rule of thumb.