Tinirau
1. (personal name) a rangatira in Hawaiki who killed Kae for eating Tinirau's pet whale, Tutunui.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 27-28;)
Nā ka haere te kakara ki a Tinirau, ka rongo a Tinirau rāua ko tana wahine ki te kakara, nā ka mōhio kua mate te mōkai a tā rāua tamaiti, a Tū-huruhuru, kua pau i a Kae (NM 1928:29). / Now the aroma reached Tinirau and when Tinirau and his wife smelt the aroma they knew that the pet of their child, Tū-huruhuru, had been consumed by Kae.