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==== Usage notes ====
==== Usage notes ====
Both suffixes are unproductive in modern Laefevian but the second sense was productive in pre-modern Laefevian and the suffixes were simply attached to the stem. Adjectives belonging to sense 1 can be traced all the way back to Proto-Laenkean, or Proto-Laefevic at least, when root gradation was still in effect. Adjectives belonging to sense 2 do not exibit any root gradation.  
Both suffixes are unproductive in modern Laefevian but the second sense was somewhat productive in pre-modern Laefevian and the suffixes were simply attached to the stem. Adjectives belonging to sense 1 can be traced all the way back to Proto-Laenkean, or Proto-Laefevic at least, when root gradation was still in effect. Adjectives belonging to sense 2 do not exibit any root gradation.


==== Declension ====
==== Declension ====