Etymology

seau

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French sea ← Old French seel ← Vulgar Latin *sitellus
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  1. Latinsitula
  2. Latinsitella
  3. Vulgar Latin*sitellus
  4. Old Frenchseel
  5. Frenchsea
  6. English todayseau

Borrowed from French seau.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.