Noun
rarely in Middle High German
(grammar) an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute
in Sanskrit later to the locative absolute
in Avestan
in Armenian
in Tocharian, not so common
in Middle Dutch, early modern Dutch and (vestigially) modern Dutch
Source: en.wiktionary.org