Arising early on the third day, the first little pig went to the house of the second little pig, and said, "Little Pig, if you will help me gather grasses today and help me tie it into bundles on my house, we will be able to complete my house by sunset, and then I will share my house with you until you have finished building your stick house."
Werowans, Weroance, Werowance, Weroanse, Wiroans, Wiroance, Heround, Herowan, Cheroun, Car. Alg.; chief or leading man in a tribe (H,N). Cp. Strachey weroance, wiroance 'a king or great lord' (Hist. of travell, pp. 63, 190), wironausqua ( lege wiroan(s)usqua) 'a woman queene'. Apparently from wilaw- 'rich, valuable, precious' (as in Delaware) plus -antesi 'exist, get along, have such a manner of life' (as in Fox-Ojibwa-Algomnkin -atesi-, -stisi-, adisi-,, but here a nasal must have developed after -a-, as in New England). This seems satisfactory, although I have no citations in support of Delaware wilawi-, and do not know whether this has wi- or wi--.
from "The Roanoke Voyages 1584-1590, Hakluyt Society, 1955, p. 899"