Traditionally identified with Sem. verb *prs ‘to divide; break’ (cf., for example, HALOT 969); this looks a typical folk etymology as even in the Bible, this term conspicuously denotes both divided and non-divided hoof.
see also *piry- - fruit
Not attested directly in Arabic, but the well-known verb fry (VIII) ‘to forge, to fabricate’
may well go back to a more original meaning “to produce fruit.”
see also *pry to bear fruit
This root has to be separated from the eventually related terms with the
same biconsonantal sequence *pr, particularly from Akk. perˀu ‘shoot, offshoot’, which cannot go back to *piry- for phonological
reasons (Kogan 2012a:233)
May be related to Akk passu ‘doll; gamepiece’, assuming that the Akkadian word originally designated a specially fashioned piece of stone used as a lot.