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by involans 1925 days ago
Eta had the value of a long mid front vowel (long "e"). German "See" is very close, but for English, the closest approximation is probably "say", which is a diphthong. This refers to Ancient classical pronunciation, before the Hellenistic period.

It is definitely not a hight front vowel ("see"), which is the value it had in Koine and has in modern Greek.