Well you just made an even more common English mistake - thinking that each word in English has to have a one-to-one correspondance with a unique word in German. True, Wollen means "to want", but if you look back at the history of english, and for that matter quite a few languages, the verbs for "to wish (for)", "to want" and "to will (as in, will something to happen)" are - understandably - the same word, because when you think about it, all those three verbs are actually saying the same thing. Der Wille means the Will to do something - because Will is just another way of saying want.
And incidentally, Macht in this sense has nothing to do with 'machen'.
krlock: wa machsch denn do i de Zueri? Ich bi au emol doert gsi, abe nur ufs besuech - ich haett i de Schaffhuuser gwohnt.

Abe jetz bini wieder z'huus.
