A Study on the Etymological Meaning of the ‘很’ Type Adverbs through Cross-Linguistic Survey

In this paper, we considered the etymological meaning of the ‘很’ type adverbs of degree, and found the common semantic features of these kinds of vocabularies. Through cross-language research, we found that these similarities are based on the common cognitive mechanism of human beings. And with the cognitive mechanism of metonymy, the ‘很’ type adverbs of degree have completed the grammatical evolution from etymological meaning to degree meaning.