Where does “ཡིག་ཚིགས་སྟོང” come from?

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

ཡིག་ཚིགས་སྟོང (Tibetan): kilobyte, a unit of 1,024 (base-2) or 1,000 (base-10) bytes in computing

Definitions

  1. kilobyte, a unit of 1,024 (base-2) or 1,000 (base-10) bytes in computing

Ancestry of “ཡིག་ཚིགས་སྟོང”, step by step

ཡིག་ཚིགས་སྟོང 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 སྟོང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྟོངthousand; to make empty, to be empty, to become...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-toŋthousand
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tsik →Every word from Tibetan ཚིགས →Every word from Tibetan ཡིག་ཚིགས →