Why this word is great
WOODKERN — [Noun] A medieval Irish outlaw or guerrilla fighter who lived and raided from the forest. From wood ("forest") + kern ("Irish foot soldier or mercenary"), a calque of Irish ceithearn choille ("wood kern"). Unlike "outlaw" (a broad legal designation) or "brigand" (a rootless highwayman), the woodkern was a creature of his landscape—half-soldier, half-wraith, woven into the damp green shadows of the Gaelic world. He is the crack of a twig underfoot at dusk, the glint of a spearpoint in bracken, the sudden disappearance into the mist when pursuit draws near—proof that even in defeat, resistance can become a kind of vanishing act.