The Proto-Uralic word *pala-
Word *pala-
Meaning to bite, to eat, bite, bit, morsel

Other words that might be of interest
*pälkä ‘thumb’, *pä—e ‘head, point, tip, end, beginning’, *keye- ‘to cook, to boil’, *kele ‘tongue, speech, language’, *jëxe ‘to drink’