Maslow's grea t quotation

[Wilson Gray]

"Maslo" is the Russian word for butter and also for
non-petroleum-based oils. FWIW, Polish is West Slavic and Russian is
East Slavic. I'd like to be able to claim that Russian "maslov" and
"maslovskii" are based on "maslo" - this would be strong evidence that
the same is true of Polish - but I can't. The best that I can claim,
absent Vasmer or another etymological dictionary, is that it's
probably not impossible.

And yes, I realize that this adds nothing to the discussion.

-Wilson

On 6/23/07, Dennis Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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> There is no evidence that the Polish word for butter and the root of
> the name Maslow(ski) are etymologically connected. Please see my
> earlier message; you are mostly OK here, but remember that final
> Polish "w" is devoiced, and the name would end in (something like)
> "off."
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> >Yes, maslo is Polish for 'butter.'  It is pronounced something like
> >"mass woe": the "l" is so-called "dark," hence pronounced like an
> >English "w"; there is no "w" at the end, for that would make it
> >"mass love," "w" being pronounced (as in most Slavic and some
> >Germanic languages) as "v."  The second vowel is more like "aw" than
> >the "o" in "woe."
> >   Of course God only knows what happens when the spelling reaches
> >American hands.
> >   Larry
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> >Is "Maslow" the Polish word for 'butter'?
> >
> >In a message dated 5/24/07 1:38:30 PM, goranson at DUKE.EDU writes:
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> >
> >>  >> According to the staggeringly informative Yale Book of Quotations, the
> >>  >> quotation is the following:
> >>  >>
> >>  >> It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat=20
> >>  everything
> >>  >> as if it were a nail.
> >>  >>=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissa=
> >nce ch. 2
> >>  >> (1966)
> >>  >>
> >>  >> Fred Shapiro
> >>=20
> >>  Small comments. FWIW, I looked for earlier citations, but found none. The
> >>  sentence (p.15-16) begins "I imagine it is tempting...." I found no=20
> >>  indication
> >>  in the book (acknowledgements, notes, etc.) that he is consciously quoting
> >>  someone earlier. Elsewhere he uses quotation marks relatively frequently.=20
> >>  The
> >>  text above this mentions an automatic car washing machine that is quite
> >>  good at
> >>  that job. "But it could do _only_ that, and everything else that got into=20
> >>  its
> >>  clutches was treated as if it were an automobile to be washed." The senten=
> >ce
> >>  following our quotation: "In a word, I had either to give up my questions,=
> >=20
> >>  or
> >>  else to invent new ways of answering them." I heard Maslow speak
> >>  decades ago at
> >>  Brandeis; an estimable man, I think.
> >>=20
> >>  Stephen Goranson
> >>  http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
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