Where does “ཡིག་ཚིགས་ས་ཡ” come from?

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

ཡིག་ཚིགས་ས་ཡ (Tibetan): megabyte, a unit of 1,048,576 (base-2) or 1,000,000 (base-10) bytes in computing

Definitions

  1. megabyte, a unit of 1,048,576 (base-2) or 1,000,000 (base-10) bytes in computing

Ancestry of “ཡིག་ཚིགས་ས་ཡ”, step by step

ཡིག་ཚིགས་ས་ཡ 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 ས་ཡ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanས་ཡmillion
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tsik →Every word from Tibetan ཚིགས →Every word from Tibetan ཡིག་ཚིགས →