In Latin, "dēcīdō" (borrowed as "decide" in English) means chop/split/cut and also decide/determine. (Coming from "dē" (down) "caedō" (cut))
In Japanese, 「分かる」 (wakaru) means understand/recognise and it comes from the same root as 「分ける」 (wakeru), meaning divide/chop.
In Turkish, "yargı" means judgement and it comes from the root "yar-", which means chop/split.
In Hebrew/Aramaic, "pisāq" means judgement/decision and it comes from the root "#psq", meaning chop/split.

(The examples may not be completely accurate, I'm fluent in only two.)

Do we internally relate understanding/deciding/judging to chopping/splitting? Or is this purely coincidental? Note that these languages all belong to different language families. (Unless you count Japanese and Turkish as Altaic.)