-hanat (as a suffix)

08:15 Sep 21, 2014 

I was very wrong, thinking that it had something to do with the verb ha=eat. -- The literal meaning makes me think of Han i Hotit, the border station where I entered into Albania for my first visit in 1979. -- A Swedish journalist, Uno Myggan Ericsson, was working as a tourist guide in Dubrovnik in his younger years, and guiding groups for a one day trip to the exotic Albania when it opened for tourists. He made 49 such trips. Once a tourist asked him why the border station changed name, coming in and going out. He couldn't find a better answer than this, "Because the Albanian government wants to confuse the enemy." Later, he told me, he found out that Hyrje and Dalje in the passport stamp was not the name of the border station, but quite another thing, In and Out.

23:31 Sep 14, 2014 

The most commonly used expression ending in -hane is "dembelhane", but you'll find more examples of it meaning "lazybones" than you will of "lazytown". I get the impression that all the offending words you have run into are meant for people (e.g. "that lot of crooks").

23:25 Sep 14, 2014 

Larserik, the suffix has no relevance here. The Albanian letter is written by someone not very well versed in the Albanian language. It does not change the meaning of the actual word. It's used for the plural form of the noun i.e. gypsies as opposed to gypsy in singular form.