Ebla

gú-ti-im - in front of(?) (ARET XI 1 rev. X 2, Kogan–Krebernik 2021b: 698)

Can hardly be dissociated from the root *ḳdm ‘to be in front, to precede’ in view of IGI.TÙM in the (quasi-)parallel text (ARET XI 2 rev. VIII 25), even if the exact morphological and semantic interpretation of the form is not yet possible (Kogan–Krebernik 2021b: 698).

PS
*ḳVdm - in front of, before (Arakelova 2001:46, Kogan 2015:395)
The preposition is considered to be derived from the verbal root *ḳdm ‘to be in front, to precede’