a Q for you eldar players.

[Chaos Lord]

i have often seen eldar saying "mon-keigh" (sp?)
im wondering what this means...
is it refering to humans?
or are do they just have a strange way of spelling monkey :D

[Hive]

yeah ive been wondering the same heh

[Imperial marine]

don't understand eldar language its english only

[KingKupo]

it means human. It's an often-used term by the eldar fanatics. it's just a more dificult method to spell monkey tough.

[Tegadil]

It's a derogatory term, used for inferior species. Orks, humans, squats (:P) and the like are all mon-keigh.

It's explained in the 3rd Edition codex. The mon-keigh were a sub-intelligent, brutish race that dwelled in Koldo. They subjugated the Eldar for a number of years, uuntil they were exterminated by Elronhir.

[Chaos Lord]

funny i thought the derogatory trem for 'inferior' races was
'weakling' or mabe thats just the chaos virsion...

[Farseer]

well now you know what im saying when i call you emperor worshiping, Daemon loving, green skinned Mon Keigh.

[Chaos Lord]

*charging plasma cannon*
Deamon loving? i hate deamons and the false emperor and them 'green skins' just get in my way:evil:

[mpjesse363]

chaos lord rolls a one and his cannon melts down leaving a puddle of goo inside his antiquated armour

lol sorry just had to say it

there is a term that the dark eldar use for the people that they mutilate and then put back togeather does anyone know what it is i remember reading it in the warriors of ultramar novel its really bugging me

[Cailet]

Grotesque? thats the list entry.

Mon-Keigh scum.

[BlackSeer]

Term for humans, mostly I being reading stories and novels about Dark Elder and sorta got the phrase from there. Even a human that managed to earn some degree of respect from a DE still being called Mon-Keigh.

But its a general term by all elders, just why I call my opponet a Mon-Keigh before we start playing :)

[Chaos Lord]

chaos lord rolls a one and his cannon melts down leaving a puddle of goo inside his antiquated armour

lol sorry just had to say it

damn over heating rule! ah well it was worth the risk :D

any way back to topic
i thought they were saying i had an army of monkeys :rofl:

[orkdom]

its the eldar word for humans

[Cailet]

No it is the Eldar (equivalent) word for vermin. To them Humans, Orks, Hrud, 'Nids and Clawed Fiends (of the Donorian Sector) are interstellar vermin and they need some serious Rent-o-kil do deal with them.

[BlackSeer]

No it is the Eldar (equivalent) word for vermin. To them Humans, Orks, Hrud, 'Nids and Clawed Fiends (of the Donorian Sector) are interstellar vermin and they need some serious Rent-o-kil do deal with them.

Never heard them using that word in any other context then with humans :blink:

[Cailet]

But in the back of Codex:Eldar it clearly notes that it is a common misconception that Mon-Keigh refers only to humans.

[Master Chief]

Yep. Mon-Keigh stands for whatever species the Eldar deem inferior.

[Athair]

Mon-kiegh litereraly means "that which must be destroyed". Most eldar refer to humans like this :D .

[Farseer]

I bet it makes all you mon-keigh feel all nice and warm inside.

[Chaos Lord]

damn you space elves and your funny words!
...its you who must be destroyed

[Cailet]

Says the one hailing from Medrengrad with his four heavy support.

And only one fast attack but they don't know that.

[Chaos Lord]

what wrong with 4 heavy support and 1 fast attack?
i dint like fast attack i prefer heavy weapons...

[KingKupo]

4 heavy support? What happened to the kid with 3 wraithlords and gaurdian sqauds all with heavy weapon platforms?

Eldar can be far more chee... um, heavy support orientated than 4 heavy support IW player.


But i hate them both and am not going to use some word no other race knows the meaning of to say it.

[Cailet]

Well if GW decide to let Eldar do that it'll be four WLs 2 units of 5 Guardians and as many WG as you can.

[Civik]

that would make everybody start playing iyanden as opposed to biel tan... it might be nice to see blue instead of green... ;)

[Farseer]

black is cooler! Go Ulthwe!

[Wind Rider]

I'd probably go with Saim-Hann, as you can see...

Back on topic. This should end the "Mon-Keigh" question.
Qouted from pg 48 of Codex: Eldar

The term normally translated as human, "mon-keigh", can actaully be found in stories dating thousands of years between the first contacts between human and Eldar, and refers to a race of sub-intelligent beasts that lived in the twilight realm of Koldo. These beasts invaded the Eldar lands and subjugated them for many years. The mon-keigh of legend were cannibalistic, misshapen monstrosities evetually cleansed from the galaxy by the hero Elronhir. It can thus be surmised that the word mon-keigh refers to any non-Eldar species that the Eldar deem inferior, in need of extermination.

[Cailet]

Screw black, go camo with Alaitoc.

[Lysit]

It refers to inferior species in general but humans in specific.

Also isn't the Tau word for humans Gu'rilla or something similar, isn't the GW humour excellent:P

[Cailet]

Gu'ela to be precise but I have no codex so if it has a deeper meaning I don't know it.

[Spazhazzard]

It is just the Tau word for humans i think.

[Dimension]

i might be wrong, but Gue is the word for "Human", La is the word for "Warrior", Vesa means "Helper". Gue'La are Human Warriors, Gue'Vesa are Human Helpers.

[Bel-Sengwar]

IN the Eldar codex there is a reference to this, a human that visited the Eldar mentions the same thing.
The Elar word "mon-keigh", although primarly used when adressing humans existed far before any human contact. It refers to another race a long time ago, and is used to describe what I would call Low-life, inferior vermin.
Although our language is far to complex for you puny humans to understand, so the exact meaning depends on the context.


Bel-Sengwar

Double Post

oops sorry i missed the 2nd page.
Well, there always need to remind those "mon-keigh" of their place, so...
lol

[Colonel Corbec]

Mon-keigh is a term referring to a race the Eldar wiped out several millenia ago, and is used generically to refer to any race the Eldar think of as 'savages'.

[Havock]

I bet it makes all you mon-keigh feel all nice and warm inside.

no, the plasma gun after rolling a one takes care of that.

[Farseer]

lol!

before you could pull out a plasma gun, i'll snap ya neck 300 different places because of Eldar agility. :P

[Havock]

lol!

before you could pull out a plasma gun, i'll snap ya neck 300 different places because of Eldar agility. :P

too bad you need to hire an ork to start doing the snapping part.

[Farseer]

hmmm... good point...

Meh... then i have to use the suriken pistol!

[KlavoHunter]

hmmm... good point...

Meh... then i have to use the suriken pistol!

And the other 49 conscripts fry you with Lasguns! hahaha! :D

[Farseer]

hmmm... another good point... Humans breed like rabbits.

I guess i gotta run :)