Härgmäe (Härgmäe)

Härgmäe (Härgmäe): Ox or Bullock Hill. Another former farm name after former fortress in northern Latvia, Ērģeme, site of a battle where Ivan the Terrible’s army decisively defeated the Livonian Order on 2nd August 1560, leading eventually to its dissolution. Whether Estonian gave the name to Latvian or vice versa is not clear: Ērģeme might be a Latvian calque of Estonian Härgmäe, but härg itself is a Baltic loan word. Etymology and diachronics too complicated for my extremely modest grasp of Estonian.