Cognates include Eastern Mari виян (vijan).
виӓн • (viän)
- strong
- mighty, powerful
- Savatkova, A. A. (2008) “виӓн”, in Slovarʹ gornomarijskovo jazyka (in Russian), Yoshkar-Ola: Mari publisher, →ISBN
- K. I. Belyaev & P. P. Romashkin (1944) Русско-Марийский Словарь (overall work in Russian), Kozmodemyansk: Маргосиздатын Кырык-Мары Филиал, page 162