Topic: "Mon-Keigh"

[TokathMarg]

Quoting from "The Torturers Tale", WD241:

"He saw creatures sprawling across the realm of our people, ugly mon-kei like you humans and the brutal O, the insufferable Kroots and others."

Now, as far as i can tell, this makes "mon-kei" (which should be mon-keigh, if I am not wrong) point at all the mentioned races, that is humans, orks and kroots + others. Normally, mon-keigh is used only about humans, but I begin to wonder if this word is used to define all undeserving races of the universe.

[Hunted Sympathizer]

I pronounce it 'monkey'.  And one of the fiction pieces in the back of the Eldar Codex talks about its meaning.

[Kage2020]

And I believe that there is a thread slightly further down the board which also addresses this topic.

[hatboy15]

You are right in assuming that mon-keigh stands for every other stupid race.
Me and my friends have found after many years and much questing, looking thourgh an eldar dictionary, that mon-keigh stands for, all ignorant races that are undeserving of owning a name.
So all races beside eldar are in effect mon-keigh.

[Cheantoa]

Yes, any non Eldar is a Mon Keigh. (oddly enough I've always said it Mon Kay).

Originally the Mon Keigh were an idiotis race that held the Eldar in slavery by sheer force. An Eldar hero stepped up and killed all of them, but since then all non Eldar have been generally called "Mon Keigh" normally with a "Stupid" or "ignorant" infront.