Wiremu
1. (loan) (personal name) Williams.
Ko ia te mātāmua a Te Aitū-o-te-rangi, wahine rangatira o Te Wairarapa, rāua ko tana tāne ko John Milsome Jury, te kāmura a Te Wiremu te mihinare (TTR 1990:21). / He is the eldest son of Te Aitū-o-te-rangi, chieftainess of Te Wairarapa, and her husband, John Milsome Jury, carpenter to the missionary William Williams.
2. (loan) (personal name) William.
Ko tēnei kōrero, he mea tuku e Wiremu Maihi Te Rangikāheke, e whakaatu ana i te whāinga o tētahi whare Māori hou, he mea whakairo ko Te Muriwai te ingoa, i Ōhiwa, me te auē hoki mō Ema Āporo, te hoa wahine o Āporo Te Tipitipi (TW 12/2/1875:1). / The following account is sent to us from William Marsh Te Rangikāheke, describing the opening ceremony of a new Māori carved house called Muriwai at Ōhiwa, and also the lament for Ema Āporo the wife of Āporo Te Tipitipi.
Wiremu, Te
1. (loan) (personal noun) William's Dictionary (Williams, Herbert W. 1971. Dictionary of the Maori Language.).
Tērā pea he kaumātua kei tō rohe, kei a ia ētahi kupu tauhou nei ki te taringa i pōhēhē kāre he kupu i tua atu i ō Te Wiremu rā (HM 1/1994:3). / There might be an elder in your area who has some words that are unfamiliar but thinks mistakenly that there are no other words other than those of William's Dictionary.
Hīpango, Hoani Wiremu
1. (personal name) (?1820-1865) Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi; Chief, teacher and assessor.
Nō te 2 o Hepetema 1841, ka moea e Hīpango a Rāwinia Rere i Pūtiki Wharanui, e pātata atu rā ki te pūwaha o Whanganui (TTR 1990:16). / On 2 September 1841 Hīpango married Rāwinia Rere at Pūtiki Wharanui, near the mouth of the Whanganui River.
Huata, Wiremu Te Tau
1. (personal name) (1917-1991) Ngāti Kahungunu; Church of England minister and military chaplain to the 28th New Zealand (Māori) Battalion in World War II in Egypt and Italy. Excelled at rugby representing Hawke's Bay. Revived the Waikato Māori Mission in Waikato-King Country from 1952 to 1972 and established strong links with the King Movement.
Pōmare, Māui Wiremu Piti Naera
1. (personal name) (1875/76?-1930) Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa; leader, medical officer, health reformer and politician, he graduated MD in 1899. He held the Western Māori seat from 1911 until his death.
Ko Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare tētehi o te whakatupuranga o ngā kaingārahu Māori i kuraina i te Kāreti o Te Aute i te tekau tau atu i 1890 (TTR 1996:137). / Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare was one of the generation of Māori leaders educated at Te Aute College in the 1890s.
Wī
1. (loan) (personal name) Will - shortened form of Wiremu (William).
Tāria rawatia kia tae ki Wharekōpae, ka pahika a Wī Pere me tōna whānau, ka whakarērea a Te Kooti mā (TTR 1994:84). / When they eventually reached Wharekōpae, Wī Pere (Will Bell) and his family escaped, abandoning Te Kooti and the others.
