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by bhaak 2642 days ago
That's wrong, Quasar is also the German word for Quasar.

But it looks like that the Scandinavian and the Slavic languages use the form "kvasar".
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oska 2641 days ago
Wiktionary is good for finding what languages a particular sequence of characters appears in.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kvasar

According to that entry, it appears in both Swedish and Czech (as an alternate spelling).

Given the commenter's username is krokku and the fact that "krok ku" means "(a) step forward/towards" in Czech, I think we can assume that the commenter is Czech.

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bhaak 2641 days ago
Two entries are not that much. On Wikipedia you can look at the list of articles in other languages.

Or go directly to Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83373

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oska 2641 days ago
Ah, interesting. So I see it also appears in Danish, Estonian and Norwegian.

But with the additional clue from the username I'm still betting on Czech.

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