(27-10-2018, 11:20 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:Apparently, the corruption of the name began during the transmission of Jerome's text. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a XII Century manuscript of Jerome's commentary. Here (f.160v) the word has become "amiaton" - an intermediate stage between "amianton" and "amiton". Those that appeared as corrections in earlier manuscripts ("ligni" for "lini", the addition of "quod") have now been incorporated into the main text.
There must have been several branches of distortion, since the 9th century Cod. Sang 266 has it "amiton" already. I wonder when and where it became "anchiton".
amianton would be abbreviated amia'ton or ami'ton; corruption = amiton
ligni would be abbreviated li'ni; corruption = lini
Those would be natural corruptions, since the macron was frequently substituted for n or m (forgetting or not noticing the macron would result in dropped characters).
But yeah, as Anton points out, anchiton can't be derived in the same way.