Where does “ཡིག་ཚིགས” come from?

ཡིག་ཚིགས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཚིགས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tsik — joint, section.

ཡིག་ཚིགས (Tibetan): byte, a unit of 8 bits in computing

Definitions

  1. byte, a unit of 8 bits in computing

Ancestry of “ཡིག་ཚིགས”, step by step

ཡིག་ཚིགས traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཚིགས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚིགསjoint; connection; link; junction
2Proto-Sino-Tibetantsikjoint, section

via Tibetan ཡིག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཡིགabbreviation of

Words derived from “ཡིག་ཚིགས”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tsik →Every word from Tibetan ཚིགས →