dative absolute

Meanings

1. an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
2. in Germanic:
3. in Old English
4. it has been continued by Modern English but at some point became the nominative absolute
5. in Old High German
6. in Middle Dutch less frequently than the genitive absolute
7. in Old Norse
8. in Gothic
9. in Old Church Slavonic
10. in Old East Slavic and due to Old Church Slavonic influence in Russian as late as the 18th century
11. in Lithuanian and Latvian

Etymology

Calque of Latin dativus absolutus.