viitsimato be motivated/inclined to do something, to feel like doing, to have a mind to do, to bother with doing
h34 wrote:вий / vij = power, strength
I don't think there's any etymological relation between Mari вий and Estonian
viitsima (Finnish
viitsiä Votic
viittsiä Võro
viiśmä) but it's an interesting coincidence! It was Naava's word
jaksaa (Estonian
jaksama Votic
jahsaa) that led me to think of
viitsima to begin with, but then I noticed how closely its first syllable matches the Mari word you posted.