If I Were a Boy is an Albanian novel written in a form derived from latin from a greek word meaning
If I Were a Boy (novel) If I Were a Boy (Albanian: "Sikur t'isha djalë" ) is an Albanian Epistolary novel written by Haki Stërmilli in 1936. Written mostly in a form of diary entries it documents the struggle of the young female protagonist Dija to adjust in an Albanian patriarchal society, which was common during the time the novel was written in. Originally the novel was written in Gheg dialect.
Alexius Alexius is the Latinized form of the given name Alexios (Greek: Αλέξιος , polytonic Ἀλέξιος , "defender", cf. Alexander), especially common in the later Byzantine Empire. Variants include Alexis with the Russian Aleksey and its Ukrainian counterpart Oleksa/Oleksiy deriving from this form. The female form is Alexia (Greek: Αλεξία ) and its variants such as Alessia (which male form is Alessio) in Italian.