Arabic

hḏw - to cut with a sword (LA 15 420)

PCS
*hḏw - to cut (Kogan 2015: 319)
Comparison with Gez. tahadya ‘to be burned through heat, to be dissolved by being cooked too much’ mentioned in CDG 215 is semantically unattractive (Kogan 2015: 319 n.938)