The Coptic ‘kingdom’ here is ⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲉⲣⲟ, etymologically from Egyptian mdt pr-ꜥꜣ ‘word/matter of the pharaoh’, but by Coptic times the first element no longer meant ‘word’ and had become a general prefix forming abstract nouns. The Coptic word is used in both the sense of ‘kingdom’ and ‘kingship’.
The Coptic ‘heaven’ is ⲡⲉ, the ordinary word for ‘sky’ in the language (just as its ancestor pt was in earlier Egyptian).
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