context: The name of the city is a possessive masculine adjective Rѣzan (with the suffix -jь-) from the masculine name Rѣzan. The name Rzan itself is a short form of passive communion carved - that is how a baby could be called, “carved from the womb of the mother” [6]. Thus, Rѣzan is “Rezanov city”. Under the influence of the yakan, the unstressed “e” turned into the “I”, although the forms with the letter “e” remained until the middle of the 20th century [7].
question: Where did the name Ryazan come from?
answers.text: from the masculine name Rѣzan