Where does “ཡིག་ཚིགས་ཐེར་འབུམ” come from?

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

ཡིག་ཚིགས་ཐེར་འབུམ (Tibetan): gigabyte, a unit of 1,073,741,824 (base-2) or 1,000,000,000 (base-10) bytes in computing

Definitions

  1. gigabyte, a unit of 1,073,741,824 (base-2) or 1,000,000,000 (base-10) bytes in computing

Ancestry of “ཡིག་ཚིགས་ཐེར་འབུམ”, step by step

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

via Tibetan ཡིག་ཚིགས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཡིག་ཚིགསbyte, a unit of 8 bits in computing
2Tibetanཚིགསjoint; connection; link; junction
3Proto-Sino-Tibetantsikjoint, section

via Tibetan ཐེར་འབུམ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཐེར་འབུམbillion
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tsik →Every word from Tibetan ཚིགས →Every word from Tibetan ཡིག་ཚིགས →