An ingot is literally "poured in" — from Old English for pouring molten metal into a mold — making it one of the few English words that preserves the sound of ancient metallurgy.
A block of metal, typically oblong, cast in a mold for convenient storage, transport, or further processing.
From Middle English ingot, probably from Old English *in-goten (poured in), past participle of in-gēotan (to pour in), referring to the act of pouring molten metal into a mold. From in- (in) + gēotan (to pour), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (to pour), from PIE *ǵʰewd- (to pour). Key roots: *ǵʰewd- (Proto-Indo-European: "to pour"), gēotan (Old English: "to pour, to flow, to cast").
An ingot is literally "poured in" — named for the act of pouring molten metal into a mold. The same Old English root gēotan (to pour) is related to German gießen, which survives in the German word Gießerei (foundry, literally a "pouring place"). Gold ingots have been standardized objects of wealth storage for millennia — the London Good