Anchiton as a transcription from Greek

[Oocephalus]

On "enchytos" I agree that it's probably the wisent (European bison). The description by Albertus Magnus sounds a lot like it, and he says that it defends itself against hunters by spraying its feces, the same story was also told about the wisent. Other versions of Albertus' work spell it "enchires", and it says You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that the word was "corrupted from 'Centaurus' by the Arabs" (I've read elsewhere that "centaurus" was sometimes mistaken for a bovine, due to the word ending in taurus). If so, this would be a good example of how a word can become unrecognizable by borrowing back and forth between different languages and scripts, with several copying errors in between.