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Gestly eszescye wyernye ku mnye prziszly, abich walczil (ut pugnem) za was przecyw sinom Amonowim
[Jestli[e]żeście wiernie ku mnie przyszli, abych walczył (ut pugnem) za was przeciw synom Amonowym]
1887 [Fifteenth century], Wacław Ubogi z Brodni, edited by Lucjan Malinowski, Modlitwy Wacława. Zabytek języka polskiego z wieku XV odkryty i skopjowany przez Aleksandra Przezdzieckiego wydał i objaśnił Lucyjan Malinowski, Krakow, Brodnia, page 43a:
Day pokoy, myli panie..., bocz nye iest gynszi, ktorj bi walczil za namy jedno ti, boze nas
[Daj pokoj, miły Panie..., boć nie jest jinszy, ktory by walczył za nami, jedno ty, Boże nasz]
1885-2024 [c.1450], Jan Baudouina de Courtenay, Jan Karłowicz, Antoni Adam Kryńskiego, Malinowski Lucjan, editors, Prace Filologiczne, volume IV, page 577:
Valczi laborat
[Walczy laborat]
1977 [End of the 15th century], “Vergili Georgicorum schedae Gnesnenses”, in Bogdanus Bolz, Wanda Żurowska-Górecka, editors, Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, volume 3, page 77:
Nec cellis ideo contende, nye walcz, Falernis, muszkatella
[Nec cellis ideo contende, nie walcz, Falernis, muszkatela]
(intransitive) to fight(to use force or weapons against persons or large groups of people who also use force or weapons in order to cause them to give up resistance)
(intransitive) to fight with (to participate in a sports competition or competition conducted for someone else's entertainment)
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “walczyć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
Paweł Kupiszewski (19.05.2021) “WALCZYĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku
1) Personal neuter forms might be considered nonstandard, protological, or nonce, appearing mostly in literature to refer to grammatically neuter nouns, however might also be used for people who prefer neuter forms. 2) The pluperfect is either archaic or obsolete and now used for conditional in the past.
Further reading
Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “walczyć”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 148