пильге

According to Keresztes, from Proto-Mordvinic *piľgə, inherited from Proto-Finno-Ugric *päľkɜ (“foot”).

Alternatively, but less probably, from a variant of Proto-Uralic *jalka ~ *jïlka with an irregular shift j > p; compare Ter Sami jïllʹge (“foot”).

пильге • (piľge)

1. (anatomy) foot
   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 55:

     I saźt malazonzo lamo lomat, martostoľt kromoit, sokort, nemoit, tšavozet i lamo liat, i putyze synst Jisusoń piľgenze ikeľde, i son letsinze syńst.

     Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them.

2. leg

• пильгев (piľgev)
• пильгень (piľgeń)
• пильгине (piľgine)
• пильгевтеме (piľgevteme)

• Oahpa, University of Tromsø [Note: if the English translation is missing, select Russian as target language]
• Entry #726 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *päĺkɜ (“foot”).

пильге • (piľgä)

1. (anatomy) leg
   • O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN

     пилькт, пильгса, пильгста, пильгс

     piľkt , piľgsa , piľgsta , piľgs

     legs, inside a leg, out of a leg, in a leg

     монь сяряди пильгозе

     moń särädi piľgoze

     my leg (~ foot) hurts

     врьгазть пильгонза андсазь

     vŕgazť piľgonza andsaź

     wolf is fed by its legs (figuratively "no pain, no gain")

     аш пильгонза, аш кяденза, а кургоц ули (кяскавсь)

     aš piľgonza , aš kädenza, a kurgoc uli (käskavś)

     [riddle] no legs, no arms but has a mouth (sack)

   • O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN

     Монь сяряди [sic? сярядихть] пильгоне

     Moń särädi [sic? särädihť] piľgone

     my legs (~ feet) hurt

2. foot