The Proto-Semitic word ḳud
Word ḳud
Meaning to cut, to tear

Comments
Kaye, Alan S. "Christopher Ehret. Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary", University of California 1995

Other words that might be of interest
θ̣pr ‘nail, claw’, pʕl ‘to do’, hb ‘to hit’, pVr ‘break, axe, cut, separate’